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To: RealMuLan who wrote (49890)	5/12/2004 6:26:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Yiwu, you are obviously bewildered about what's happening in China. They are buying CDMA faster than anyone. In Xian, the city is literally seething with it. That's about all anyone is doing there = selling CDMA cyberphones. Yes, the W-CDMA 3G version is on hold, but that's because China's government realizes that CDMA2000 is where the action is. Also, Flarion might be useful to them in GSM spectrum. Have you heard of 1xEV-DO? Before you study Confucius and John Stuart Mill, read about 1xEV-DO. 1xEV-DO is fast data via cyberphones. Fast means fairly quick, at around 1.4 megabits per second. That's not fast compared with how fast humans can absorb visual data, but it's quite quick for a lot of purposes and much faster than the kludgy W-CDMA lumbering along at 384 kilobits per second with a following wind. Not only that, but 1xEV-DO slips right in alongside existing CDMA2000 using 1.25 MHz with a low upgrade cost. China has been watching Korean CDMA producers making a fortune. They figure that they could make a fortune too. Mqurice

To: RealMuLan who wrote (49890)	5/13/2004 9:58:33 AM
From: brian h	Respond to of 74559

At least some Chinese are not as dumb as China government officials. The elite group thinking does not work well in a dynamic fast changing environment. Who says 3G is not mature yet? Think twice. QUALCOMM Expands Its WCDMA (UMTS) Customer Base Thursday May 13, 7:31 am ET - Increased Demand for WCDMA (UMTS) Supported by 21 Wireless Manufacturers Worldwide - SAN DIEGO, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - News), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced that 21 wireless device manufacturers have selected QUALCOMM's integrated chipsets and system software for their WCDMA (UMTS) deployments. This is the largest customer base in the industry to work with a single WCDMA (UMTS) wireless chipset provider. Leading global manufacturers, including new entrants BenQ Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Pantech & Curitel, and Vitelcom Mobile Technology, today joined the previously announced Hisense Group Co. Ltd., Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd., LG Electronics, Inc., Novatel Wireless, Option NV, Samsung, Sanyo Electric, Sierra Wireless, Inc., Toshiba and ZTE Corporation in selecting QUALCOMM's MSM6200(TM) and/or MSM6250(TM) Mobile Station Modem(TM) (MSM(TM)) chipset solutions to support commercial WCDMA (UMTS) network deployments throughout China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. "We expect global adoption of WCDMA (UMTS) to accelerate as our customer base brings new products to market," said Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "QUALCOMM's extensive interoperability testing, in addition to the testing we've conducted with our WCDMA (UMTS) operator partners, provides our handset customers with the confidence that their development efforts can remain focused on quickly addressing new market opportunities." -----------------------------------------------------------