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To: Eric L who wrote (43688)	12/10/2004 5:51:01 PM
From: Dexter Lives On	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197443

Qualcomm needs to join the WiMAX Forum Published: Friday 10 December, 2004 Qualcomm has built its success on owning its own technology and challenging industry standards. Now that its CDMA cellular platform and its huge portfolio of patents are aging, it is turning to OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, the main technology underpinning broadband wireless) to enhance and future-proof its networks. But this time it does not own the technology and would be rash to try to stand alone against the supporters of the dominant OFDM flavour, WiMAX – especially as some of its largest customers, such as Motorola, are supporting WiMAX. We believe that Qualcomm will take a hybrid approach to this market and, by mid-2005, will unveil chips that enable integration of CDMA and OFDM, and support 802.16 standards. Final thoughts: Bringing Qualcomm within the WiMAX community would be of great benefit to customers, placing its considerable engineering prowess into the standards process while denying it the price premiums it can charge for CDMA. rethinkresearch.biz Willie Trombone .... o8-)