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To: kx who wrote (95556)	3/9/2001 10:31:26 PM
From: ronho	Respond to of 152472

ITU-R Prepares to Give HDR Official Endorsement; with Clear Timetable March 9, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Agreement was reached to give official backing to the high data rate mobile data (HDR) communications system, officially known as "1xEV-DO," at a Working Party 8F gathering of the International Telecommunications Union-Radiocommunications Sector (ITU-R) in late February and early March. The HDR wireless communications system was developed by U.S.-based Qualcomm Inc. At the ITU-R meeting, the participants agreed to try to finalize standardization of the system specifications before November 2001. The specs completion for HDR are now scheduled by some time in the latter half of 2001. The work will be carried out by 3GPP2, an industry group that sets standards for the IMT-2000 third-generation wireless systems such as 1x and HDR, which are extensions of current cdmaOne technology. ITU-R has now made it clear that it intends to give HDR its official recommendation as soon as the specs are ready, and that means that telecoms operators around the world can now start to put in place concrete plans for the early introduction of HDR-based services. As far as Japan is concerned, KDDI has plans to start offering an HDR service some time in 2002, and the company says that the date of the service's launch is unlikely to be influenced by the schedules of the standardization process. Related story: KDDI's High Data Rate System Test Confirms 2.4Mbps Maximum Throughput

To: kx who wrote (95556)	3/10/2001 8:00:37 AM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

KX: Does the QCP 6035 SmartPhone or the Handspring's VisorPhone have the QCOM's chip sets in these devices at all? If not, QCOM's future is doomed. First, the Kyocera PDA/phone combo is a CDMA phone and uses a Qualcom chipset. It will be sold by Verizon and Sprint in the US and works on their CDMA/analog networks. Palm and Motorola are working to produce a GSM combo phone, supposedly for 2002 sale. The Handspring Visorphone clip-on module is a GSM based phone, and works (in the US) on Voicestream, Cingular and Powertel networks. Handspring doesn't yet (as far as I know) offer a CDMA clip-on module, but I'd expect them too pretty soon. Likewise, you can hook your existing Palm PDA to many cell phones - GSM, TDMA or CDMA - using a $40 connectivity kit and a cable. But why do you think "QCOM's future is doomed" by any of these developments? David T.