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To: S100 who wrote (2713)	2/24/2001 2:52:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12245

<February 23, 2001 Irwin Jacobs, chief executive officer of Qualcomm, claims that European GSM operators that have paid billions of euros for 3G spectrum licenses are listening with renewed interest to Qualcomm’s potential ‘rescue plan.’ The company is focusing on the lengthy delays now being experienced with GPRS deployment as supporting evidence that wideband-CDMA 3G will be some years away before it becomes a commercial reality. Jacobs maintains that Qualcomm’s cdma2000 technology, which he claims will be available much sooner than rival W-CDMA, could become attractive to operators as they come under pressure from their financial backers to generate a return on their 3G investment.> Wow! Irwin moves fast. Brings the knight swooping in from the wall almost immediately. Comes off the ropes from the rope-a-dope even before the errant commentators have finished publishing their ignorance. He even beat me to the punch [unsurprisingly really]. Of course, without 3G and being stuck with a dial-up modem and NetZero, I am not up to normal speed. But when 3G is available, it will be a different story. It is very, very annoying, traveling and being deaf, dumb and blind without internet connection. [Perhaps those who think 3G is irrelevant don't travel much or don't depend on internet access - they'd have to live in a cave in Outer Transylvannia to not depend on the internet these days]. GSM, GPRS, the Bleeding EDGE and VW-40 have now run out of moves to make. Their GPRS knight has been forked, their EDGE rook is bleeding heavily, pinned against the GSM king. The VW-40 queen is blocked in, can't move and going to be lost soon as the IS-95B pawns continue to make headway, the 1XRTT bishops start covering the board and the cdma2000 'Q'ueen starts wiping out the remaining GSM Guild opposition. As so often the case, once the position crumbles, utter defeat is going to be obvious very quickly. The amazing thing is that the audience still thinks that the 'Q'ueen is losing. Irwin will no doubt announce some moves soon enough [perhaps as early as Tuesday when there is a data presentation to analysts which will be webcast and an earlier shareholder's meeting]. Mqurice PS: Just in case the regular IS-95A, IS-95B, 1xRTT, 1xEV and cdma2000 pieces aren't enough to ensure a total and early CDMA victory, Irwin has brought in a new piece, which flies high above the board, decimating the opposition without opposition. Okay, it's not in the old chess rules to invent another piece, but heck, this is for real and for keeps. Come in Globalstar!

To: S100 who wrote (2713)	2/25/2001 2:12:16 AM
From: S100	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12245

BT boss fears 'crap service' By Jason Nissé 25 February 2001 The managing director of BT, Bill Cockburn, has warned that BT Cellnet could end up offering a "crap service" unless it is given the go-ahead to build thousands of new telephone masts. The five winners of the auction for third-generation mobile licences, including BT, need to build 50,000 new masts, or base stations, in the UK to deliver the enhanced mobile services. Presently there are only 20,000. In an exclusive interview with the Independent on Sunday, Mr Cockburn admits BT has a hard task persuading local authorities and central government to give planning permission for the masts because of worries about health risks. He says: "If you don't make the investment in the base stations, you won't have the service. You will get a lot of frustration from customers saying: 'You sold us phones but we got a crap service'." BT Cellnet is already suffering in the market, as was shown by figures from Continental Research, published here last week, which suggested its core business is in decline. BT hopes to float off BT Wireless, which owns BT Cellnet, later this year. But the float has been put in doubt by the poor performance of Orange shares, which stand 11 per cent below their issue price earlier this month. independent.co.uk