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To: EJhonsa who wrote (44)	11/14/2000 3:12:34 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9255

"An imperfection of capitalism" sounds like a new angle on the success of W-CDMA. It could make a decent bumper sticker - I bet it would sell like hotcakes in Austin. There's no doubt that DoCoMo is exerting a lot of influence - in Korea as well as places like Taiwan and Hong Kong. But I don't see how a major company using its heft to impose an international standard can be regarded as an imperfection of capitalism. Isn't that what Microsoft and Intel are doing? These companies don't seem like flaws to me. DDI was the first operator to express doubts about cdma2000 in public. The gist was that cdma2000 did not actually exist - it is more of a concept than a standard at this stage. DDI was not referring to 1x, but the wideband technology. Because both 1x and the future technology currently in development are called "cdma2000", it is hard to even discuss cdma2000 - because someone will immediately pop up and say: "Sure, cdma2000 exists; it is already being implemented in Korea!!". This is a case of how a linguistic sleight-of-hand can totally obscure the real issue - which is how far into development the future version of cdma2000 really is at this point. And I'm not talking about 1x. I know the counterargument: "There is no need for a wideband standard - 1xRTT will be enough!!". The trouble here is that the operators that have actually evaluated W-CDMA and cdma2000 (both the cdma2000 of your terminology and the cdma2000 of my terminology) do not seem to agree. You can take Korea out of the 3G equation by arguing that the operators there are just playing mind games to negotiate better terms. You can take Europe out of the equation by arguing that EU operators are part of a malignant cartel protectin W-CDMA. You can take Brazil out of the equation by hinting at "irregularities" in Latin American decision-making. You can take Japan Telecom out of the equation by arguing that it is part of the Japanese W-CDMA mafia. You can even dismiss Hutchison by pointing out that DoCoMo is twisting its arm. But if you try to make all of these arguments simultaneously - that's when they start to look hollow. This is the borderlands of the Illuminati country. Tero