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To: foundation who wrote (118551)	5/9/2002 10:31:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

<When will wCDMAUMTS be a functionally, financially, legally viable technology? Who can say. I'm beginning to believe that IJ is entirely too optimistic. > Ben, remember when Irwin Jacobs a couple of years ago said he thought it would be 2004 or 2005 before VW-40 became an actual commercial product in use in some numbers. Nokia and others started foaming at the mouth, claiming that their great new invention, which doesn't need QUALCOMM technology and which they invented in 1890, would be ready in 2002. Well, it's now 2002 and Nokia isn't exactly boasting about their subscriber numbers. Heck, they haven't even got the GPRS part of the progression to 3G in the GSM Guild under way very well. The Bleeding EDGE, the second leg of the conversion of GSM to VW-40 is still just a fantasy. So to think that VW-40 will be selling this year is a joke. Maybe 2005. As you say, Irwin was optimistic. Mq