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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2433)	12/24/2000 12:10:13 AM
From: The Verve	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12236

Mqurice, Deutsche Telekom has signed letters of intent stating infrastructure buildout in 2001 and commercial deployment in 2002. What I'm suggesting is WCDMA may be further along than we all think. Sure, we can argue that these announcements don't mean a thing, but the number of them and the players involved I think can only lead to one conclusion - the cdma2000 battle may be lost. Believe me, I'd rather see CDMA2000 trounce everyone in the dust, but my opinion means nothing. Lord knows carriers need the best solution available. But actually, what carriers NEED means nothing as well, it's what they WANT. Apparently they want wcdma. As ugly and bloated and costly and slow as it is, they want it. I think it's obvious us CDMA2000 guys have missed out on what carriers want - CDMA2000 isn't providing what WCDMA will (supposedly) provide. Instead of cringing over every wcdma press release, I'm gonna align myself with the dark side and begin embracing wcdma. Once Q is able to provide a dual cdma2000/umts chipset perhaps CDMA2000 will begin making inroads in Fortress Europe. In the meantime, maybe I'll mosey over to the NOK board and buy Tero a drink... Verve