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To: voop who wrote (98485)	4/29/2001 4:55:45 PM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

It is difficult to understand how GSM land can ignore the technology and economics with their decisions. Do you not think that one of the major reasons the EU is avoiding CDMAone and CDMA2000 is their fear of having their wireless present and future determined by a single US corporation? It seems that with W-CDMA they tried (and failed) to avoid Q's patents, but are they not also attempting to have some control over their wireless technology? How would the folks in the US feel adopting a wireless technology controlled by a single German or French company? US telecoms would have no control over royalty rates, what product and features were offered, or the future direction. From that point of view it makes some sense to me that the EU would try to cobble together something else even if it takes longer to come to market. (I'm sure there are also other considerations such as their attempt to repeat the GSM cartel.)