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To: foundation who wrote (2714)	9/3/2000 8:35:37 PM
From: nbfm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197207

Want to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. China Sees Its Phone Standard Accepted This Year, Paper Says Shanghai, Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The International Telecom Union is expected to accept this year a cellular telephone standard that China is developing with Siemens AG, the China Daily reported. Acceptance by the Geneva-based standards organization will give an edge to the Chinese-German technology, called TD-SCDMA, over the rival CDMA 2000 standard, the newspaper's Business Weekly reported, citing Li Feng, chief engineer of China's telecommunications academy. CDMA 2000 is based on Qualcomm Inc.'s code-division multiple- access technology. Billions of dollars are at stake in how China's government plans to build its cellular phone network. The government has begun developing the TD-SCDMA standard as it seeks to reduce its technology dependence on foreign firms such as Nokia Oyj, Ericsson AB and Motorola Inc. (China Daily's Business Weekly, Sept. 3) For China Daily's Web site, see {CNDY <GO>} Sep/03/2000 2:42 ET For more stories from Bloomberg News, click here. (C) Copyright 2000 Bloomberg L.P. Any redistribution of Bloomberg content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Bloomberg L.P. Any reference to the material must be properly attributed to Bloomberg News. The information herein was obtained from sources which Bloomberg L.P. and its suppliers believe reliable, but they do not guarantee its accuracy. Neither the information, nor any opinion expressed, constitutes a solicitation of the purchase or sale of any securities or commodities.(C) Copyright 2000 Bloomberg L.P. BLOOMBERG, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg News Radio are trademarks, tradenames and service marks of Bloomberg L.P.

To: foundation who wrote (2714)	9/4/2000 11:42:47 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197207

".. but a group of operators put the real muscle behind the CDMA harmonisation process... The Operators Harmonisation Group (OHG), which, after all, represents most of 3G's potential customers throughout the world, reiterated in May its support for a common global specification for the competing 3G CDMA systems." ---------- As I've noted before, the power for determining standards is shifting away from the standards bodies and to the Operators. (No, Eric, I'm not suggesting that the standards bodies melt away - but that their ability to self-direct is terminally on the wane.) The Operators will have what they require. This is how we will see roaming and compatibility between CDMA flavors far sooner than most expect. This is how we see HDR in Europe, and the flushing of EDGE, far sooner than most expect. With the proposed unified ANSI41/GSM Map, CDMA MC may have an opportunity to compete with DS in Europe on the basis of technology alone. Best of all, it's all based on QCOM's fundamental IP. QCOM will remain best positioned to dominate the evolution of core technologies. Here is the link to the Operators'Harmonization proposal. itu.int