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To: JohnG who wrote (22014)	4/30/2002 9:15:01 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196850

re: China's proposed Mobile Phone Radiation Standard ========== Interesting article. If enacted, it would clearly pose a liability to the China GSM/GPRS market. The very market, (coincidentaly?) that is controlled by foreign interests... If enacted, it would - certainly from MII's perception - advantage cdma2000 interests... the "green" technology, and China vendors. * And it would be of profound damage to Mobile, if MII were sincere in planning a Mobile gprs push to counter Unicom. "The MMF (Mobile Manufacturers Forum) expressed that Chinese new standard would impact at least three aspects in Chinese mobile phone telecommunication field, which were that 1, the reduction of emission power of base station must (increase) demand for more base stations, 2, the reduction of emission power of mobile phone would in turn affect the quality of communation, 3, the mobile phone manufactured in China would not be suitable for export." Aspects #1 and 2 are structural gsm/gprs problems. Aspect #3 is telling. Is the MMF seriously suggesting that handset SARs can be too low for successful export? Or do they betray that handsets meeting the criteria would be performance limited to the point that there would be no market? If China enacts SAR 1W, then MII is not serious about gprs**, and Mobile will have to seek an alternate mode for evolution to 3G.