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To: carranza2 who wrote (100307)	6/12/2001 7:34:34 PM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 152472

carranza: Very interesting perspective. Seems that you have hit the reason for the Vodafone stance. Best. Chaz

To: carranza2 who wrote (100307)	6/13/2001 12:04:24 AM
From: Kayaker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

VOD's strong arm tactics have nothing to do with the quality of the technology, nor do they have to do with roaming as the multi-system chips are going to make roaming a non-issue. I have trouble seeing how the multimode MSM6xxx chipsets would be seen by VOD as a solution. They would be more expensive than a "simple" WCDMA chipset, and would force reliance on QCOM since I doubt any other company could produce one (maybe NOK in 2050). Can't see how the folks on the other side of the pond would be very happy with that. Isn't that the entire raison d'être for WCDMA, i.e., to attempt to move away from a QCOM-only solution? And, since few folks would require that kind of roaming, what are the economies of scale for such phones?