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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (98528)	4/30/2001 10:35:10 AM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Respond to of 152472

What they refused was to give up their fair share of the royalties Mika. Caxton

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (98528)	4/30/2001 11:21:00 AM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 152472

Mika: It doesn't take that much intelligence to assume that Europe had a difficult time internally to adopt WCDMA. Europe and Asia have been battling about the standardisation of WCDMA too. So have the Koreans. The whole battle about the standardization of WCDMA has been kind of a joke to me. On the one side, you have the Asians with 3 or 4 years of CDMA expertise that are trying to increase global market share at the expense of the Europeans. On the other side, you have the Europeans blaming QCOM every time it becomes obvious they have failed on their mission to develop any working equipment for WCDMA, even though their direct challenge is with companies like Hitachi, NEC, and Samsung. The battle is between the individual manufacturing companies, not between the technolgy developer and it's licensees. QCOM has eliminated all of it's conflicts of interests, leaving just chipsets and royalties. It wasn't the Korean companies that decided to select WCDMA that is backward compatible with their existing 2.5G networks. The Korean government mandated that 3G WCDMA in Korea be compatible with existing 2.5G technologies. Why do you think QCOM is making ASICs for multi mode, multi band, multi network 3G CDMA solutions? You may or may not be correct about QCOM not wanting to participate in the early standardization of WCDMA. They had to focus too many of their resources getting CDMA2000 standardized. Why bother with WCDMA until the last rounds of negotiation when the issues like synchronous chip rates vs. asynchronous chip rates could be determined? Also, how was QCOM to convince a standards committee that a synchronous WCDMA chipset could be possible until they had developed the technology? QCOM has a track record of developing technology solutions that work before they try to sell them. Quite a different approach than DoCoMo, Nokia, and AWE.