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To: foundation who wrote (9603)	3/4/2001 10:11:53 AM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Samsung goes w/ QCOM W-CDMA chips & Lg negotiating w/ QCOM for W=CDMA chips. THE QCOM FREIGHT TRAIN IS PICKING UP SPEED. ALL ABOARD. JohnG Samsung to Buy 3 Generation Chipsets From Qualcomm Qualcomm Korea said yesterday that Samsung Electronics Co. will use its MSM5200 chipsets and systems software for its W-CDMA asynchronous IMT-2000 mobile telecommunications products. LG Electronics, Korea's second largest mobile phone manufacturer, is also negotiating with Qualcomm to use the U.S. company's parts in the making of its asynchronous IMT-2000 wireless phone. The local industry is worried that local wireless phone manufacturers will grow strongly dependent on Qualcomm in third generation IMT-2000 wireless phones as they have already built a strong reliance on Qualcomm parts in making cellular and PCS phones, considered to be second generation mobile communications technologies. The two companies together account for more than 70 percent of the local cellular phone market, and if both of them use Qualcomm's parts, the foreign firm's control of the local mobile phone market will become tighter. At a parliamentary inspection last year, opposition Grand National Party lawmaker Kim Hyung-o said local companies had paid $651.77 million in royalties to foreign companies for wireless phones and had spent $1.67 billion by last August to import core chips for CDMA manufacturing. jakenho@koreatimes.co.kr

To: foundation who wrote (9603)	3/4/2001 1:07:23 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Ben, << I would be hard pressed to describe R4 and R5 releases as being well defined ... They're still in the process of deciding, by consensus, what technology components may be considered for inclusion, prior to providing Working Groups and Ad Hocs specific assignments. >> I could be wrong of course, but without digging to deep, I think that the many elements of R4 are completed and frozen and it is about to be published (target was March which was the original 'R2000' target). "Release 2000" was split into "Release 4" and "Release 5" with target freeze dates of March 2001 and December 2001 respectively. R5 still scheduled to freeze in December, I believe. << There are many of cooks in the kitchen. >> An understatement. I do scratch my head whenever Dr. Jacobs and Rich Sulpizio refer to the "moving target" of W-CDMA. Both 3GPP's have chosen to evolve standards in phases, and the 3GPP2 evolution would really be confusing, if it were not for your efforts to track and define status. - Eric -