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To: engineer who wrote (28787)	11/12/2002 11:14:47 AM
From: GO*QCOM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197028

QUALCOMM fan in Germany sent this to Anthony Thornley a quest at CNBC EUROPE: Mark sent an email to CNBC Europe in England today from his home in Germany to Anthony Thornley. CNBC Europe read it on the air, not all but most of it. Anthony Thornley from QCOM seemed to be happy that I brought up the GSM1X alternative in my email. Anthony Thornley said it was an alternative and also that he had a trial company trying it out under a Mem.of undersdanding (MOU). Thornley was asked who but he would not say, once again. He also said WCDMA will be used but this also be a low cost alternative while Europe waits for WCDMA. He also said WCDMA should be ready next year. The interview from England based CNBC-Europe started with: (They of course try to tell him) we didn't need another version technology in a GSM world, Blah, blah, blah..."we want one standard, not Triband". Thornley said "that was yesterdays story". There are now new multi type chips with all in one solutions. Thornley explained, one does not only we do not have to only choose CDMA2000 but that CDMA is in WCDMA, etc... and went on about the royalties for all. CDMA2000 is in Korea, Japan and the USA. Spent the last year developing WCDMA chips. He was asked again to clarify what the difference was, Thronley said:GSM combines network and radio. CDMA improves radio, in turn it improves the system. This is only a chip transition. One e-mailer try to say 3G is dead because we have Wi-Fi. Thornley replied with, Wi-Fi is also complimentary to CDMA and is for the home but 3G is needed outside the home and has a large demand. Thornley also brought up how great the chip sales are going and a great future ahead. All in all, apart from the Euro's trying to beat on CDMA2000 and that QCOM was trying to take over GSM, it was fairly a good interview and he was invited back any time he is passing through. Mark Sugenheim, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: engineer who wrote (28787)	11/12/2002 10:15:35 PM
From: propitious7	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197028

But Isn't analog in diff band from cdma? Engineer and Tom B. Thanks for your helpful explanations on band sharing for overlay of cdma. Example you give is of overlay of CDMA service on Analog. But (in U.S.) isn't analog in the 400mhz spectrum while CDMA is either in 800 mhz of 1900 mhz. And in that case the new overlay doesn't use spectrum of the service it supplants. If a GSM carrier has not alternative spectrum, can he do the channel swapping you describe within his allocated 900 or 1800mhz band??? I understand the GSM1X overlay where carrier has use of 800mhz or 450mhz spectrum. thanks propitious