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To: Eric L who wrote (15106)	9/13/2001 2:04:08 PM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

From Ben G To:John Carragher who wrote (14891) From: Benjamin Garrett Thursday, Sep 13, 2001 12:21 PM Respond to of 14895 "..Does this open the door for cdma in Europe?" ---------- Nope. It means that Qualcomm Europe has begun to significantly contribute to 3GPP proceedings, and to Release 99 specifications specifically - although Q's quantity of contributions to Release 4 and release 5 (UTRA, HSDPA) are picking up as well. 3GPP has been trying, for some time, to wrap up their Release 99 specification..... that has been, and continues to be fraught with errors... 3GPP would dearly like to move on to focus development on their Release 4, which is intended to be their "foundation" specification... but Release 4 still relies on viable Release 99 specifications... and the ever illusive first generation networks will based on Release 99. You may recall that 3GPP pronounced Release 4 specifications complete months ago... <g> <ggg> <ggggg> But there may be other levers loosening Europe's lock to cdma2000..... All of the balls are still in the air. And the Register's BT article this morning voices growing discord from within the bowels of Europe... Resentment to vendor and carrier deception clearly evolves....