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To: qwave who wrote (97062)	4/6/2001 3:45:34 PM
From: Kayaker	Respond to of 152472

Nice article. No BS here... Ed Chao, senior manager in the wireless networks group at Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent Technologies Inc., said Nokia's problem is the result of a "software shortcut" the company took with the 2G CDMA standard. According to Chao, if Nokia had followed the 2G CDMA specifications, the older phones should have been able to access the new 3G networks for voice calls and data transfer at lower speeds. As it is, Nokia's older phones can't access 3G networks at all.... An official at one carrier, who declined to be identified, doesn't accept Nokia's argument, however. "It's their problem, and since we have a quarter-million of their phones in a warehouse, we think they should take them back and put in a new chip set. We don't want to sell these phones to our customers," the official said.... Bob Egan, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn., said Nokia's problems with CDMA aren't new. "Nokia has no clue on how to build network equipment or handsets for CDMA," he said. "They have failed miserably in the past, and this latest round is yet more evidence of their ineptness in realms beyond [Global System for Mobile Communications, the European standard]."

To: qwave who wrote (97062)	4/6/2001 4:21:00 PM
From: Pierre	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

quarter-million of their phones in a warehouse Verizon? Sales that slow? Not surprised NOK trying to make this a CDMA 2000 problem, but it looks like the carriers won't tumble for that one. Still, why are that many phones in a warehouse? Pierre

To: qwave who wrote (97062)	4/6/2001 4:29:14 PM
From: idler	Respond to of 152472

"...but we have to be prudent and test the software [to ensure] there are no downstream ramifications." Can one of the techies explain whether a Nokia patch could screw up the entire 1x launch?

To: qwave who wrote (97062)	4/6/2001 7:21:36 PM
From: Mike Torrence	Respond to of 152472

Watch what happens: Lucent, QCOM et al will work like crazy to provide their "fix" and Nokia will turn around, claim the patch as NOK IPR and insist that QCOM and others pay for it. Half kidding.