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To: EJhonsa who wrote (4254)	11/3/2000 12:19:25 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196985

Eric, Ben, engineer, ML & others, FWIW, I would appreciate it if you all could continue the debate & refrain from the personal stuff. IMO, you all make compelling arguments & many here are learning quite a lot from the debate. The personal stuff is only going to cause emotional responses & less thoughtful debate. FWIW, time will clear the cloud over who is right & wrong.... not the personal stuff that is growing more heated by each post in the here & now. JMHO Ö¿Ö

To: EJhonsa who wrote (4254)	11/3/2000 10:29:59 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 196985

Re : "So ... if anyone can tell me ... why ... W-CDMA is nothing but smoke and mirrors" I am not an electrical engineer. But someone who is (Dr. Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm), made a presentation (described as follows) : A chat with QUALCOMM's chairman and CEO Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs from the SABEW Technology Reporting Conference. The Wireless Universe - September 16, 2000 in which he showed a whole bunch of charts and diagrams about things like "erlangs"* and spectral efficiency. The "gist" of it clearly seemed to me : If you believe in the electrical engineering data, there is NO WAY one could possibly prefer W-CDMA to CDMA2000. It (W-CDMA) does not use the spectrum as well. Period. The only reason anyone would consider it is because of things like politicians forcing something through (like the Japanese developing that idiotic, totally obsolete, and forgotten HD-TV format). A replay of this event is available at : qualcomm.com Jon. * check out cdg.org for some exciting "erlang" stuff.

To: EJhonsa who wrote (4254)	11/3/2000 10:38:08 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 196985

Eric, If you had any real background in this, instead of inferences for which you have no background, then perhaps your argumetns might make sense. Your arguments, while seemingly likely from a logical point of view are totaly wihtout basis in the real world technical details. It does take 18 months AND MORE to roll out a new chipset. The MSM 5000 is PIN compatible and RADIO copatible with the old MSM. This means you plug it in and the radio works the same. the RF engineers don;t really have much to do. the software engieners can amke changes if they want, or they can use the backward compatible woftware stacks they already have to build the phone. they can then enable the HDR when they get it working. In the mean time they have a phone which can go thru the entire CDG qualification suite and be market ready way before the software is ready. I do now know of ANY OTHER pin compaitble and RADIO compatible technology for WCDMA. It is sure as hell not GSM. If Mr. Wstera02 doesn't like this line of technical refutiation, then go back to the other thread. I agree that perhpas YOU should limit yourself to that which you actually KNOW to be the trusth, rathe than your inane inference based education that your trying to inflict on us here on the thread.