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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (6825)	8/3/2000 2:51:15 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

<No company was willing to do so even in China, despite the political pressure on China Unicom.> Tero, in your opinion is China Unicom going 1x or CDMA-2000? Ruff

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (6825)	8/3/2000 3:03:16 PM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

"....it would be insanity to introduce a single IS-95 network with no roaming possibility in any given country...." ---------- Roaming is easy as pie. And soon to be common. Common between GSM and CDMA. Europe can enjoy it's advantages - if they're allowed. <gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg>. A single, common standard is meaningless.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (6825)	8/3/2000 3:49:05 PM
From: The Verve	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, you slay me. "European operators naturally went with W-CDMA to get the easiest upgrade from GSM-GPRS. You can't blame them for that, either." You can repeat it as much as you want and hope it becomes true, but calling WCDMA an easy 'upgrade' from GSM is like saying the bimbettes in NOK's IR are 100% qualified to answer investor questions. The WCDMA 'alliance' is nothing more than a popularity contest based on blueprints and cock-eyed dreams. What's gonna happen when the truth starts leaking out that WCDMA is too slow and too late, and operators throughout the world are enjoying fast, proven and exciting shiny new CDMA2000 networks? I'll tell you what's gonna happen, the whole house of cards is gonna crumble. But actually, the WCDMA house of cards I'm sure will crumble before that. I can't help but think so called WCDMA vendors are gonna let operators roll out CDMA2000 networks left and right and (knowing WCDMA is years from deployment) not want to get their hands in the pie too. Corp. eyes will blink, knees will buckle, and deals will be made before all this happens. Count on it. We're seeing it happen already. Verve

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (6825)	8/3/2000 6:25:10 PM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 34857

Tero: I totally agree with you that IS 95 or cdmaOne equipment will never be installed in Europe. Fortunately for the QCOM shareholders, QCOM will be getting royalties on all of the WCDMA networks that will be introduced in every country in Europe. By the time that these 3G networks are installed, I would not bet against QCOM having developed a synchronized WCDMA/CDMA2000 chipset. It's going to be a truly wonderful affair. All the best!!

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (6825)	8/4/2000 12:34:32 AM
From: tradeyourstocks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero - do you have any idea what you're talking about? <European operators naturally went with W-CDMA to get the easiest upgrade from GSM-GPRS.> Last I checked, there was no upgrade from GSM-GPRS to W-CDMA, only to EDGE. I don't mind being wrong, so please explain if you know how to upgrade the GSM air interface to a CDMA air interface without replacing the thing. <the only EU mandate is to have at least one W-CDMA network in every country. There is no directive against cdma2000.> I thought that this was something that the CDMA2000 camp was hoping for but not decided yet. Do you have any links I could use to do some research on this? MicroE