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

To: John Biddle who wrote (33777)	3/31/2003 7:01:42 AM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197208

Nokia to use own CDMA chips in China Forms largest Chinese mobile manufacturer By Tony Dennis: Monday 31 March 2003, 09:52 theinquirer.net A NICE TWIST to events here with Nokia announcing that it should soon be supplying CDMA based handsets into the Chinese market. So the world's leading handset vendor – and a European company to boot - is to supply the world's largest Communist state with CDMA handsets rather than rival GSM handsets. Puts a lie to the claim that CDMA is an American technology. Nokia has also said it intends to merge four existing joint manufacturing ventures in China into one. That will create one of the largest foreign invested enterprises in China, as well as one of the largest Chinese manufacturers and exporters in the mobile telecommunications industry. Nokia is still the major shareholder with over 60 per cent of the shares. Significantly the new company will begin production of CDMA handsets using Nokia chipsets, pending Chinese government approval. Which proves, of course, that you can build a CDMA network without having to use Qualcomm's products if you really, really want to.

To: John Biddle who wrote (33777)	3/31/2003 10:31:28 AM
From: straight life	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197208

What the heck is that about??? "...If Congressmen Issa's propaganda on behalf of the Qualcomm-based CDMA mobile phones were correct, of course, then anybody using a local phone would have their location reported direct to the local phone company. Fortunately, any such network would probably have been restricted to the large cities anyway, and CDMA phones are probably the least accurate of any, in reporting location data." (just to show you we're actually reading the wealth of pure info and even the biased PR you post: thanks)