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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (53546)	10/21/2002 8:34:04 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Good News! Steven Den Beste is now got a column on TCS Tech, and his first one is on an old friend, QCOM. Namely, the triumph of CDMA over the Brussels' Bureaucrats. Excerpt. >>>>>>This kind of thing has played out much the same way hundreds of times before between Europe and the U.S., and nearly always it's had the same result. And as Europe increasingly centralizes and "harmonizes" and moves more and more authority to Brussels, it's going to keep happening. Decisions will be made from the center, and a lot of the time they'll be made wrongly because the "center" is not the infinite repository of all knowledge and wisdom. The "center" chose GSM (and thus TDMA) to be the winner; America decided to let the market pick the winner, and it didn't turn out to be TDMA. And now Europe is switching to the superior CDMA air interface which could never have been developed in Europe because of government regulation. European centralization turned out to be a competitive advantage - for the U.S. And that's going to keep happening. If I were vicious and wanted to wish commercial failure and misery on Europe, I could think of nothing better to inflict on it than the process going on now whereby more and more authority will move to Brussels to be used by unelected bureaucrats who answer to no one, and will make binding technological decisions based on politics and ideology.<<<< rest is at: techcentralstation.com