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To: elmatador who wrote (43076)	12/12/2003 12:34:56 AM
From: brian h	Respond to of 74559

I hope you are talking about China's TD-SCDMA. Developing a TD-SCDMA standard and building a commercial TD-SCDMA network are two different things. I bet you know quite well. "the key is to build. And the Chinese will build. Who build 3G so far?" I think you are talking about WCDMA. NTT DOCOMO, 3 Networks for examples. They have iffy networks. JPhone is another. This company uses QCOM's WCDMA chipsets. It took WCDMA camps that many years (at least 5 years)developing, testing, building, optimizing their networks. Do you think China's so called home-grown TD-SCDMA networks can operate any any time soon? And can China afford to lose time to market, resources and patience at any stage of building its networks? The answer is pretty obvious. Intel failed miserably in its wireless bid by writing down $600 million worth assets. This is just chipset developments. (Previously Intel claimed they already gave up on CDMA2000 and put all efforts on WCDMA chipset developments). How many Chinese companies can afford a write down like that? ""You see, anyone getting a good pool of patents and creating the critical mass will win the day."" Wishy washy is one thing. Be realistic is another. (Taiwan is a good example. That Mulan lady likes this. :0)) QCOM continues to do R&D to bolster its CDMA patent pool. How many companies out there can put so much efforts and experiences combined in just one thing (CDMA) only? QCOM will continue to receive its royalty no matter how you want to slice it. QCOM welcome TD-SCDMA networks to be commercialized as soon as possible although QCOM have not negotiated the royalty rate with China vendors yet. Chinese vendors can claim all they want by saying home-grown TD-SCDMA. The truth is that all major handsets and infrastructure manufacturers have signed royalty bearing agreements with QCOM. No China vendor can avoid this process unless they want to lie and cheat. ""And you don;t even have to have the best. Look to Windows it beat Apple superior technology because it went put there and built -in this case a customer base and a footprint."" We just have to wait and see if EDGE, OFDM or 4G can come close to compete. See if they can compete with ever more mature WCDMA and CDMA2000 networks as time passes by. This QCOM supported site has every flavor about 3G CDMA. 3gtoday.com