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To: Boplicity who wrote (88559)	12/1/2000 3:39:15 AM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Hi Gregory, AT&T Wireless will license DoCoMo's i-mode mobile technology for its nationwide network for 3G services on the wideband code-division multiple-access, or WCDMA, standard. So what does that mean for Qualcomm’s CDMA (CDMA2000)? Qualcomm has a stronger intellectual-property position in their competing CDMA2000 than with W-CDMA. In fact, the European cellular industry invented W-CDMA partly to work around Qualcomm's patents. Qualcomm still has patents that pertain to W-CDMA, but not as many. It seems, US 3G related revenue related to this is probably 4 or more years away. Skeet (Theoretical verses implementable tower capacity, spacing and interference may cause rethinking these approaches and standards??)