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To: John Biddle who wrote (4718)	11/18/2000 1:27:12 AM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196924

More from Comdex I tried to follow up on the items in my previous post with Qualcomm but they were nowhere to be found. There were several booths listed in the directories and I went to all of them without luck. Nokia, Motorola, Nortel, Hitachi, Samsung, etc. all had booths. Ericson was a major sponsor and their CEO gave one of the keynotes. IMO, Qualcomm should have been there to wave the CDMA flag and be available to counter the hype and misinformation which was so universally spread. An opportunity missed.

To: John Biddle who wrote (4718)	11/18/2000 11:45:18 AM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196924

Thanks for your update about Comdex. A couple of comments. I did a couple of posts on this thread about recent CTIA show in Santa Clara. QCOM had a big booth and I talked with a SnapTrack rep who was part of it. It works - ask NTT DoCoMo. Ask the two NOK guys who must have spent 30 minutes talking with the rep while I was wondering around. Ask the guy from Glenayre (sic) about the SnapTrac enabled product they are banking on (due out around next June) to differentiate themselves from the other makers of commodity pagers, etc. Second thought is a question - who were the people on the panel other than the QCOM guy? Were they all PC folk? Comdex is a PC oriented show, no? The PC industry has had its place in the fore-front or the economy and now it is time for it to slide into the background, and allow wireless to move to the forefront (along with optics). All of these folks are facing this reality and it could help explain their ignorance (denial is not a river in Egypt). What is really curious is that they could say this in the face of all the attention put on wireless at the show.