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To: Bux who wrote (2997)	9/10/2000 10:25:47 PM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196826

...Telson isn't exactly a household name in the U.S... Otherwise what benefit is there to Nokia? Late last year, when we were speculating about who would buy the handset division and I was championing NOK, someone sent me a PM that said that NOK would not buy the division and gave the following reason. NOK used a two-chip design in their CDMA phones while QCOM's design was one-chip. So buying the handset division would mean NOK having to run two different types of designs or giving up one or the other. I do not know the technical details, but I do remember this. So, if that information was correct, and NOK is still using a two chip design, they could not use QCOM's 1x in their phones. Unless they could come up with a two-chip 1X design, they would have to go to a manufacturer who was set up to use QCOM's one-chip design. Again, I may be basing the above on incorrect info, or on an incorrect understanding of the info I was given. But it explain why they had to go with a Telson for their 1X phones.