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To: Eric L who wrote (44318)	7/11/2001 3:46:46 PM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Eric- Bottom line, I truly believe that Nokia is lying big time to its customers regarding GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA. Just following in the footsteps of ERICY as far as I can tell. In the short term they may be screwing us all. IMO. Caxton

To: Eric L who wrote (44318)	7/12/2001 11:34:06 AM
From: Caxton Rhodes	Respond to of 54805

OK Eric- Here is how Nokia is lying to their customers/potential customers: reference the Nok slide show, slides 22 and 23. uwcc.org For starters: 1. With respect to capacity numbers, they have downgraded IS-95 and 1x about 20% and doubled GSM and WCDMA. 2. How can they gain more efficiency with GSM in 10 MHz, than both IS-95 and CDMA2000 1x? This is basically non-defensible. The system that has the most efficiency in 5MHz should gain the most when moving to 10MHz. And CDMA should actually gain even more, because it can add an extra carrier. Both GSM and WCDMA can only double the number of carriers. IS-95 and 1x can double and then add one more. Ending up with a higher capacity for GSM as compared to IS-95 is ridiculous. 3. On the data rates, they missed CDMA2000 1xEV by a factor of 2 and upgraded WCDMA by 50% with respect to their own previously published numbers (WCDMA for UMTS, written by Nokia engineers). 4. Most important, they fail to mention that the high data rates for Edge can only be sent over short ranges. It cannot overlay on GSM cells and provide coverage, unless those GSM cells are really close together. And also note this article: more.abcnews.go.com Caxton