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To: benhorseman who wrote (50690)	3/1/2006 11:01:45 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197032

LTE will be based on many elements that will be included in Release 7 of the 3GPP standard, primarily OFDM and MIMO, although CDMA technology will be removed from Radio Layer 1 of LTE. Draft specs for Rel. 7 are due to be frozen in June this year. "It is unlikely all vendors will agree to IPR capping," says Patterson. "Nevertheless, by removing CDMA from the LTE standard it also removes perhaps the most vocal opponent to royalty capping and proportionality - Qualcomm." This has always been the long-term risk to Qualcomm's IPR demands. OTOH, any implementations of LTE are likely to have HSDPA/HSUPA as one of the modes for a very long time. Slacker

To: benhorseman who wrote (50690)	3/1/2006 11:32:45 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197032

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is working on a radical plan to restrict Intellectual Property Rights for patents essential to all components of the next version of the 3GPP-based radio standard - Long-Term Evolution (LTE). Here we go again.

To: benhorseman who wrote (50690)	3/3/2006 10:53:13 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 197032

Concerning the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) & their plan -- I really think it will be hard for 350 million Euronuts to dictate to the remaining 5.5 billion people on this earth. There are inflows of intellectual property from US, Korea, Japan, China, India and elsewhere. Sure, they may create some pretty documents that would give them some sort of monopoly if the rest of the world agreed. But, the fact is that the world simply will reject Euronut leadership in this matter. Also, what we see here is a thinly disguised monopoly play based on a world order that has already ceased to exist. Everyone knows that Euronuts are great at creating standards based on promise, hope and wishful thinking. But they are poor where the rubber meets the road -- at building networks and phones that actually work using these standards based on wishful theory. They are poor at R&D that generates real patents based on phone concepts that really work. JohnG