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To: foundation who wrote (25992)	8/23/2002 9:18:56 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196724

Qualcomm to Help Thai Agency Evaluate Mobile-Phone System Tests FRIDAY AUGUST 23 12:00AM BANGKOK POST, THAILAND COPYRIGHT 2002 KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE BUSINESS NEWS COPYRIGHT 2002 BANGKOK POST, THAILAND Qualcomm, the US developer of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless technology, has offered to help the Communications Authority of Thailand draw up a technical framework for testing base stations and switching centres for the CDMA mobile phone system. The equipment is to be imported by two groups of companies that won the first round of bidding for the 15-billion-baht expansion of the state agency's CDMA mobile phone system. A CAT source said the agency accepted the offer because Qualcomm pioneered the technology and was in the best position to assess system operations. He said Qualcomm technicians would arrive from the United States within two weeks. Two groups led by United Communications Industry Plc (Ucom) and Lucent Technologies are competing for the CAT project. Ucom subsidiary Real Time Co has teamed up with Motorola, Nortel and Samsung, while Lucent has joined with EPC Solutions. Each group is required to undertake four months of field tests of the CDMA equipment. The CAT source said the tests would focus on the compatibility of the existing CDMA network in Greater Bangkok and the network being installed by BFKT-Hutchison in the central provinces. The CDMA service in Bangkok is scheduled to be available commercially by the end of this year. The source said the switching equipment would be tested at the CAT's Bang Rak exchange, while the base station equipment would be tested in suburban areas. The tests will focus on the quality of signal transmission between the BFKT-Hutchison networks and the new networks being installed nationwide. Currently, the CAT is laying out the network configuration, which it will present to the two groups to test. By November the CAT would know who had passed the field test on the actual networks based on the recommendation from Qualcom, he said. The source said that Qualcomm's entry was an open offer with no conditions attached because it is the patent owner of the CDMA technology. If the CDMA expansion succeeded in Thailand, then Qualcomm would benefit from the expected sale of infrastructure to suppliers, the source said. wirelessweek.com