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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (144391)	8/17/2006 5:36:46 PM
From: ohohyodafarted	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Your Thesis has a lot of merit Maurice. The philosophy of "If I didn't invent it and I don't manufacture it, it's no good" which Nokia and the Euros are so fond of has, caused more than one company to falter. Nokia and their failure in CDMA is but the most recent example of this failed philosophy. I can also site Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corp, as companies that also followed that flawed philosophy. In the later 2 these companies wanted to stick with their own proprietary, in house designed processors long after better and cheaper processors were available on the market. They did so, so that they could sell proprietary operating systems of their own in-house design to their customers in an attempt to prevent the competition from getting into their customer base. Those strategies did not work in the long run because eventually the market sees the wisdom in switching to the better mousetrap. I predict that the same will happen with TDSCDMA. Sooner or later the Chinese will realize the world is passing them by and they have given a huge head start to the rest of the world using already adopted cellular technologies, and that their home grown TDSCDMA is something that the rest of the world doesn't want or need. How stupid, when the Chinese could opt to adopt existing cellular technologies which could propel them into the forefront as leaders in the industry.