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To: Pierre who wrote (1527)	7/28/2000 12:23:04 PM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 196654

Yes. What seems to be emerging is a series of moves which make a "converged" standard (which may resemble whatever the Koreans claim is "backwardly compatible" to CDMAOne) - probably with a "WCDMA" label as a face saving measure for the Europeans as well as DoCoMo - likely. But again, this will take some time to work through. In the meantime, 1X-MC and HDR (1xEV) will move full speed ahead. And GPRS will limp forward on the GSM legacy system - with 30 kbpt - except in Japan where there is no GSM. All in comparison to IS-95B at 64 kbps in Japan now and 1X in a couple of months in Korea (and early in 2001 elsewhere) at 144 kbpts on CDMA. Then HDR (1xEV) come on in the second half to 2001. And once that happens, the question will be who needs WCDMA and for what? (Except for those stuck in GSM) Best. Chaz