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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (79)	8/16/2002 9:50:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 258

< Hey, Mq, we could buy the assets for $1 per company, build out GSM1x in the 800MHz spectrum, which would be half the cost of doing it in 2GHz and it would use the existing sites and backbones and bingo, instant 3G across Europe.> Hmm, good idea Mq. But wouldn't it be fairer for the citizens to give the money back to Zomby? After all, the citizens have got jobs driving taxis, making hamburgers, stacking supermarket shelves and stuff for $10 an hour and they are used to doing that and paying taxes for their hospitals, schools, roads etc. They probably like doing that and wouldn't know what to do with $100 billion. Zomby is going to do it tough if he has to get a job stacking supermarket shelves instead of swanking around in limousines, flying on Concorde and staying in the Ritz. He really needs that $100 billion to continue in the lifestyle to which he's become accustomed. Then again, the citizens could invest $50 billion of the auction proceeds in our new GSM1x network and keep the profits for themselves and put the other $50 billion into hospitals, roads, schools, bankruptcy courts, police and stuff. Why give it back to Zomby? He'll probably pour it into that hole where his business acumen is supposed to be. Mqurice

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (79)	8/16/2002 10:40:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 258

Mqurice, it's not 800MHz in Europe, it's 900 MHz for GSM [or 1800 MHz]. Here's a QUALCOMM press release about GSM1x qualcomm.com < ORLANDO, Fla. -- March 18, 2002 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced that leading equipment manufacturers Kyocera, Nortel Networks, Samsung Electronics, Sanyo, Spatial Wireless, TCL Mobile and Winphoria Networks support the development of GSM1x, a new and cost-effective technology evolution for Global System for Mobile (GSM) operators. Nortel Networks plans to support GSM1x with CDMA2000 1X radio access and GSM core network equipment, and Samsung Electronics manufactures the CDMA2000 1X radio access infrastructure equipment. Spatial Wireless and Winphoria Networks will develop the GSM1x Mobile Switching Node (MSN), which interfaces with both the unmodified GSM core network and the unmodified CDMA2000 1X radio access. Kyocera, Sanyo and TCL Mobile manufacture the CDMA2000 R-UIM enabled handsets, which are software upgradeable to support GSM1x. QUALCOMM, Nortel Networks, Samsung Electronics, Spatial Wireless and Winphoria Networks will demonstrate this powerful technology solution, using commercial CDMA2000 1X handsets at CTIA Wireless, March 18-20, 2002 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The demonstration will include mobile-originated and mobile-terminated short message service (SMS) and voice calls, achieving high-speed data rates up to 153 kbps. These CTIA demonstrations follow a similar and successful live demonstration of the GSM1x solution at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, last month. "QUALCOMM is pleased to see numerous leading companies supporting the GSM1x solution, which signifies the viability of GSM1x as an alternative technology evolution for GSM operators," said Sanjay Jha, senior vice president of engineering, QUALCOMM. "We look forward to working with these leading equipment manufacturers as they contribute to the 3G CDMA market to meet all operators' needs worldwide." GSM1x enables convergence of a GSM/GPRS core service network with CDMA2000 radio access. GSM operators can seamlessly integrate this new solution by leveraging their existing GSM/GPRS core network equipment while enhancing the data capabilities and spectral efficiency of their radio access with commercially available CDMA2000 1X infrastructure. Using existing spectrum, GSM1x offers GSM operators increased voice and data capacity, supporting peak data speeds of up to 307 kbps in a 1.25 MHz channel. Common data throughput achieves up to 70-90 kbps, two to three times the throughput of standard dial-up modems. Additionally, the GSM1x solution seamlessly supports the CDMA2000 1xEV-DO air interface, allowing peak data rates of 2.4Mbps. The GSM1x solution supports SMS and position location, and introduces a GSM1x MSN to interface an existing and unmodified GSM core network with an unmodified CDMA2000 radio access network. GSM1x terminals utilize a standard GSM Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) and are subject to standard GSM authentication. As a result, operators will be able to offer global roaming and service transparency between CDMA2000 1X and GSM networks without compromising their current infrastructure. > But spectrum won't matter when QUALCOMM has radioOne going because 800 MHz or 900 MHz will both be okay cdmatech.com I know it's not your fault that you got the 800 and 900 mixed up - if the European governments had done it right, they'd have allocated better spectrum. Mq