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To: mightylakers who wrote (84529)	10/23/2000 8:35:13 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

China Will Not Step Back from Any WTO Commitment: Premier Zhu Premier Zhu Rongji said Monday that China will absolutely not step back from any of the commitments it made in bilateral negotiations with the European Union or other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Zhu made the remarks during a formal meeting Monday morning with President Jacques Rene Chirac of France, the current chair-nation of the EU, and Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission. Zhu assured them that China will honor its commitments and in the meantime hopes WTO members will not add new requirements in the multi-lateral negotiation process. He stressed China can only join the WTO with the status of a developing country. The Chinese premier hopes that during the current Sino-EU summit both sides will consider China's WTO entry from a strategic perspective and reach consensus, so as to help complete the multi-lateral negotiations as early as possible. President Chirac said the EU will energetically promote the process, and hopes that, through joint efforts from China and the EU, the negotiations on China's entry into the WTO will be concluded in the "coming few weeks." China and the EU reached a bilateral deal in May this year. So far China has completed bilateral talks with 36 WTO members out of the 37 who asked for bilateral talks. english.peopledaily.com.cn Ö¿Ö

To: mightylakers who wrote (84529)	10/23/2000 11:46:17 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The only different part as I can see is on the GSM side, because if you want to have that seamless interoperability between a GSM carrier and a CDMA carrier, you need help from both(same thing in WCDMA, with different methods). If (I am definitely speaking hypothetically) a GSM carrier were to have an MC overlay, would it be "easy" for Qualcomm to make chipsets which allowed handsets to roam onto both a MC-MAP network and an IS-95C network? Is this simply a matter of agreeing on a standard and then some simple software changes? I guess my interest arises from some of the stuff that Ben has been pointing to on the 3GPP2 website. It definitely looks like they are attempting to merge 1XTREME and LAS-CDMA into a 1xEV-DV standard (unless LU throws a monkey wrench into the situation). This makes no sense to me as a Qualcomm investor. Why would Qualcomm allow itself to lose control of the upgrade path to IS-95 networks? The new 1xEV-DV standard is going to incorporate IPR from Qualcomm, Nokia, Link-Air, MOT and maybe TXN and LSI (they are all co-sponsers of 1XTREME). Contrast this to the situation with 1xEV-DO (HDR) in which Qualcomm is the sole owner of the standard. Either Qualcomm has been outmaneuvered (I doubt that) or some of Ben's theories with regard to China are correct. Note that one of the co-chairs to the 1xEV-DV comittee works for Qualcomm....dont know how much that influences things, but it seems to make it less likely that this is occurring without Q's approval. Perhaps the meetings in Kyoto this week will shed some light.... Slacker