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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (88718)	12/2/2000 4:12:01 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Respond to of 152472

Qualcomm applauds AT&T move By Bruce V. Bigelow UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER December 2, 2000 Was Qualcomm gloating yesterday? The long-anticipated news that AT&T Wireless has established a far-reaching plan to move to next-generation wireless networks prompted San Diego-based Qualcomm to issue a news release that applauded the decision. Some investors, recalling AT&T's long-standing hostility toward Qualcomm's CDMA technology, wondered if Qualcomm was crowing just a little. Qualcomm pioneered the development of CDMA, or Code Division Multiple Access, and promoted its digital wireless standard as technically superior to Time Division Multiple Access, or TDMA, the technology preferred by AT&T. Until now, that is. On Thursday, when AT&T said it was selling 16 percent of its wireless business to NTT DoCoMo of Japan, the company also laid out plans to create a subsidiary to develop a new, high-speed wireless network built to global standards for "third generation" wireless services. "AT&T Wireless plans to be one of the first major companies in North America to deploy such a network based upon . . . WCDMA (wide-band code division multiple access)," the company said. Qualcomm spokeswoman Christine Trimble said Qualcomm issued its response "to clarify that Qualcomm would benefit from the deployment of CDMA technology." Any gloating is just incidental, right? "We're happy to see any operator adopt CDMA technology," Trimble replied.

To: Kent Rattey who wrote (88718)	12/2/2000 4:17:53 PM
From: S100	Respond to of 152472

"Spread Spectrum Multiple Access Communication System Using Satellite or Terrestrial Repeaters" 164.195.100.11 System and Method for Generating Signal Waveforms in a CDMA Cellular Telephone System" 164.195.100.11 I believe that some of the power control patents are also important Method and apparatus for controlling transmission power in a CDMA cellular mobile telephone system 164.195.100.11 To view the patents go to 164.195.100.11 Enter Qualcomm in term 1 and Assignee Name in field 1

To: Kent Rattey who wrote (88718)	12/4/2000 9:05:05 AM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

<The basic CDMA patent IS the same however QCT was <clever in tieing alot of "support" function patents <to CDMA2000 that do not apply to WCDMA> As my German friend says: "vat ish all sthis silliness?". There is no "basic CDMA patent". It does not exist. CDMA was not Q´s innovation. CDMA1 and CDMA2000 are Q´s babies, WCDMA is not. Any talk of similar IPR revenues out of CDMA2000 and WCDMA are rubbish. In some level yes, such as if you use out pat. no. 123456789 you pay the same in both systems. But the thing is, in the other system you don´t need that patent. When the WCDMA was created Q should have played ball. But, quite the contrary, they did their very best in irritating the others. So they responded by willfully writing Q`s IPR in the standard? The conceptual skills are obviously not the strong point of many writing on this thread, but still: what are the chances for that? Rack your brain. - rajala