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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (50903)	3/10/2006 9:34:53 AM
From: Jim Mullens	Respond to of 197214

c2, Re: ETSI / LTE and- 1. “Since Q acquired Flarion, its IPR position in OFDMA is incredibly strong. I have also read somewhere that its MIMO position is strong as well.” Exactly, the Q has both and in spades!!! 2. “Replace CDMA, sure, but also use OFDMA? How does that help ETSI's negotiating position vis-a-vis Q?” 3. Would not an LTE device also require WCDMA (and GSM/GPRS/EDGE) to be backward compatible with the existing legacy network? 3.1. Could that new network be stripped of the legacy components, WCDMA (GSM/GPRS/EDGE), and still support all the “old” 3GSM (WCDMA) users? As in 3GSM handsets, the handsets also include GSM/GPRS/ (EDGE in some cases) since they have to have the ability to fall back to GSM/GPRS/EDGE in areas where WCDMA has not been provided. Secondly, the networks have to continue to support GSM/GPRS/EDGE for a number of years since some folks don’t upgrade to the newer technologies. 3.2. Are they then talking about an entirely new and separate network without WCDMA (GSM/GPRS/EDGE)?