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To: jackmore who wrote (136331)	12/30/2004 9:06:35 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Re: Spectrum - India. Just a guess on my part, but the tsunami disaster may lead to more use of wireless, inasmuch as most of the wired infrastructure along the east coast of India and Sri Lanka is pretty much gone. Art

To: jackmore who wrote (136331)	12/31/2004 8:43:00 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 152472

re: "WLLcos denied more spectrum"-- These DoT amended criteria for release of spectrum don't seem significant. There's turf overlap and competition of TRAI and DoT. DoT manages spectrum in favor of the old interests, TRAI recommends policy. TRAI will release their recommendations within a month if the schedule hasn't changed. Then it goes to court. The last time in court was for Unified Licensing, which snapped a lot of petty DoT obstructions. This document trai.gov.in and ongoing buildout of WCDMA networks around the world will be very helpful to the court. TRAI knew the drill when they issued the consultation. SKIP PAUL-- ???

To: jackmore who wrote (136331)	1/2/2005 11:50:52 AM
From: jackmore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Royalties worry small GSM phone makers January 03, 2005 ¤Ñ Small and medium-sized mobile phone makers in Korea face huge royalties for using technologies related to the Global System for Mobile communication, or GSM, standard. The Ministry of Information and Technology confirmed yesterday that foreign mobile phone firms are demanding that these small companies pay for using core technology patents for GSM, which is the standard for mobile service in Europe. There are about 400 core technology patents for GSM, and are held mainly by foreign cellular makers such as Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, according to the Information Ministry, but there are about 4,000 technologies that have the potential of becoming patentable. In Korea, Samsung Electronics is the only company that has GSM technology-related patents; it used its six patents to settle negotiations through cross-licensing. Other large phone makers such as LG Electronics and Pantech and Curitel also make GSM phones, but royalties are less of a problem, since the companies have managed to keep them to under 10 percent of the handset price. Edit: Yet they prefer to whine about Q's 5% for CDMA. Small firms, however, are being threatened since their orders are on a small scale. Also, many companies have only recently started making GSM phones since competition for code division multiple access, or CDMA, standard phones has become too high, mainly due to cheap phones made in China. Last year, several companies holding patents individually sought out small mobile phone makers, demanding royalties of $4 million to $40 million. The companies are still undergoing negotiations. Major cell phone makers are not as threatened but also are worried that patent holders will increase royalties. Responding to the plight of small cell phone makers, the Information Ministry and Institute of Information Technology Assessment plan to help them out by creating a patent map of GSM core technologies by March and developing a strategy to protect those companies. by Wohn Dong-hee, Lee Hee-sung <wohn@joongang.co.kr>