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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kent Rattey who wrote (31914)	1/30/2003 10:35:02 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 197007

Linkabit was much like Qualcomm when it started in that it allowed pretty much intrapenurial skills to develop, until Ma/COM bought it. then it became a widget factory. IMJ left Linkabit on April 1st, 1985. Qualcomm was formed in July 1985 in Irwin's Family room, and later rented space over the Greek Deli and dry cleaners near the Rock bottom Brewery at La Jolla Village Drive and Gilman Ave. Linkabit developed the phones for Interdigital and did alot of work on patents and such. they had a rural phone system based on TDMA called Ultraphone. Never went any place much mostly because IDC couldn't sell it and market it. Phone worked pretty good. It was actually during that time when most of the engineers at Linkabit figured out that TDMA was not the technology of choice. There was never any GSM done, but the basic stuff on TDMA applied to GSM in some ways. And for you historians, GSM started out as a single specification, but ended up being this political battle and actually was 15 standards over Europe. To make it seamless, they built this complex software stack which allowed context switching across borders to make it appear seamless. this is what makes the stack so diffacult to develop. Not doing the basic GSM specification.