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To: Eric L who wrote (13233)	7/2/2001 9:26:32 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

re: Spectrum - NextWave - Verizon - "Voice is Still King" >> It's A Good Thing Voice Is Still King Marisa Torrieri Wireless Today July 2, 2001 Take that, NextWave Telecom. Verizon Wireless never needed wireless data spectrum, anyway. Perhaps stemming from industry reports that predict a settlement is unlikely between NextWave and Verizon Wireless in the biggest soap opera of wireless data yet, Verizon Wireless CEO and President Denny Strigl on Thursday stated that "voice is still king" at the keynote address opening the FT World Mobile Conference. Strigl said wireless voice is a primary driver for success, and not to be overshadowed by wireless data, especially since wireless voice minutes-of-use continue to increase. Verizon Wireless supports a settlement between NextWave and the government, but according to reports such an agreement is increasingly unlikely because various government regulatory bodies, and possibly Congress, would have to approve the deal. But Jeff Giesea, senior analyst with Washington, D.C.-based research group FierceWireless, is confident a settlement is likely. "NextWave will likely walk away with a couple [billion dollars]," Giesea told Wireless Today. "What's bad is this has created a political situation." On June 22, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Of Columbia Circuit ruled that Federal Communications Commission violated federal bankruptcy law by repossessing the spectrum licenses that NextWave acquired in a 1996 auction for $4.8 billion. Bidding for the repossessed 1900 MHz licenses ended in January after 101 rounds, with Verizon Wireless as the top bidder. Verizon Wireless agreed to pay $8.8 billion for 133 licenses covering 150.7 million POPs. The Bottom Line And to think Verizon Wireless actually thought they needed new revenues from wireless data! Silly them. << - Eric -

To: Eric L who wrote (13233)	7/2/2001 10:08:32 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

Building new or improving standards: Usually done so that someone first makes "their own thing" Slightly different if it is a major or a minor vendor. Usually "the others" are quick to do something similar, but if possible slightly different, more cost effective or better, improved. If it goes really bad it turns into a patent war, incompatible systems, some gain from this, some lose from that, more complex than chess. However, this is where the operators and ITU comes in, negotiations are done all the time, constructive and sometimes destructive., run be the future customers. One major rule is that when the new standard is specified, for it to be approved, all vendors should be fairly eqally placed "on the starting line", patents cross licensed, or other similar solutions found,etc.. One main point that nobody should have compatible, existing equipment for sale out in the field. However, these mechanisms are now changing, from upgrading eeprom to flashing them or even remote flashing, both for fixed operator equipment and user equipment. Compare the 56kflex, etc years leading up to V90. (in that case Rockwell, Motorola, 3COM,etc couldn't agree on V90 in time, so 2-3 years were lost, small companies went belly up, sales down for 2 years because of "waiting for V90", even with marketing "upgradable modems", some scams,etc) That is, one need to know a lot of the "behind the scene" factors to have an opinion on smart messaging-EMS-MMS. The fact that MMS is happily agreed on tells me everything is OK, and downloadable ringtones, logos,etc got started and progress is fast. Ilmarinen P.S. Those who might be unhappy are those who were hoping for a some "easy money", sat on a "submarine patent", contract on future royalties,etc, others are fast to adopt the new standard by participating in developing it. (I know nothing about this for messaging,etc this case)