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To: Eric L who wrote (8920)	1/23/2001 4:15:24 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

"suffered inadequate power levels and signal strength" I guess this was about the saem time when other manufacturers got disqualified for shouting at the cocktail party. Shouting also seem to be important for SMS messages. But Q has never liked that others shout at parties, eats all that 40x capacity they promised. All while Gilder withdraws to another orthogonal nirvana behind the comet Globalstar: (thanks, Q-thread, but not sure where the quote ends, although it really doesn't matter) Message 15230479 -- Orthogonal Frequency Division means almost nothing. It applies, for example, to the original AMPS analog system. In this case it is enhanced by digitization and "flash" (ie fast) signal processing to allow low latency communications. All I can say is that at very best they are a year behind Qualcomm's HDR, which has the considerable virtue of existing already, and which also uses orthogonal frequency bands (separated in time and space) and is also being upgraded to allow transactional data with lower latencies. I suspect that like EDGE--which is already backpedaling from claims of joining mobility with multimedia--Flarion will end up as a wireless local loop provider that is either mobile or multimedia (voice and data) but not all at once. As far as I can see, after all the political postures and machinations are over, this battle will be settled by the engineers and that the paradigm will prevail. That is, some dynamic combination of CDMA 2000 with HDR and Globalstar will become the winner. I would love to see the Ford alliance bring it to market, but as yet I have no indication that Globalstar is in the picture there (though Qualcomm did not deny that it might well fit). --GG ------- Luckily Nokia has (already had) a good opportunity to test OFDMA in the digi-TV system (another interesting media space). Ilmarinen.