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To: slacker711 who wrote (61365)	3/22/2007 10:21:00 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 197254

Adds mobile phone manufacturers in last paragraph) WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - Government agencies would have a harder time communicating with the public in an emergency if imports of cell phones containing Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O: Quote, Profile , Research) computer chips are banned, a federal official said on Thursday. The U.S. International Trade Commission is considering the import ban in response to Qualcomm's infringement of a Broadcom Corp. (BRCM.O: Quote, Profile , Research) patent involving battery-saving technology. Federal Emergency Management Agency program manager David Webb said the import ban would make it more difficult for people to receive alerts and warnings from FEMA. "An (import ban) would significantly impact the type and quality of information which can be exchanged between responders and citizens ..., severely impacting FEMA's ability to communicate critical information at disaster sites," Webb said in a written submission to the ITC. The ITC is trying to decide whether the ban would cause public interest problems that outweigh Broadcom's patent rights. The agency plans to issue its decision by May 8. An ITC administrative judge concluded in October that Qualcomm had infringed Broadcom's patent, but stopped short of a ban on U.S. sales of cell phones with Qualcomm chips. Webb's comments were echoed by other public safety advocates who said advanced features available in Qualcomm's chips such as video capability and faster transmission speeds provided advantages to emergency responders. Continued... There are important public safety benefits to the technology ...," said Patrick Halley, a spokesman for an association that represents emergency call center managers. Earlier on Thursday, the second day of a two-day hearing on possible remedies in the patent case, the ITC heard opposition to a ban from two wireless carriers. Executives with Sprint Nextel (S.N: Quote, Profile , Research) and Verizon Wireless told the ITC that the proposed infringement remedy would hurt their customers and hamper their transition to cutting-edge data services. Wireless companies are concerned about an import ban because their telephones use a technology called EV-DO in Qualcomm's chips that enables the phones to access data, music and video services. "If Verizon Wireless cannot offer EV-DO-capable handsets, then there is no business case for continuing to upgrade Verizon Wireless's network to EV-DO," the company's chief technology officer, Richard Lynch, said in prepared testimony. "This will harm Verizon Wireless's business for years to come. It will also harm consumers and domestic competition in the wireless broadband market while de-positioning the U.S. leadership in wireless data," Lynch said. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (VZ.N: Quote, Profile , Research) and Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L: Quote, Profile , Research). Major cell phone manufacturers, including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS: Quote, Profile , Research), Motorola Inc. (MOT.N: Quote, Profile , Research), LG Electronics Inc. (066570.KS: Quote, Profile , Research), and Kyocera Corp. (6971.T: Quote, NEWS , Research) also argued against a ban.

To: slacker711 who wrote (61365)	3/23/2007 11:59:40 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197254

QUALCOMM Demonstrates Significant EV-DO Milestones with High-Capacity VoIP Over Rev. A and High-Speed Data Over Rev. B Company Achieves 114 Simultaneous VoIP Connections in a Single EV-DO Rev. A Sector and 9.3 Mbps Peak Data Rate in a Live, Over-the-air Demonstration of Rev. B qualcomm.com SAN DIEGO — March 23, 2007 — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA ) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced a major milestone on the evolutionary path of EV-DO - a demonstration of 114 simultaneous voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calls over a single 1.25 MHz channel in an isolated sector. In commercial deployment scenarios, EV-DO Rev. A's capacity is expected to be up to 68 users in a 1.25 MHz single embedded sector, or about 475 simultaneous users in 10 MHz (a single embedded sector with seven 1.25 MHz carriers). The demonstration validates EV-DO's stability and maturity in supporting high-capacity, high-quality VoIP services - an important element of the rich voice and media applications that drive consumer demand. Modems with commercial application-specific integrated circuits in both the handsets and prototype network were used. The field test to demonstrate 114 simultaneous VoIP calls was conducted using an isolated EV-DO Rev. A sector employing a single 1.25 MHz channel in order to stress Rev. A algorithms, protocols and design parameters. This VoIP field test employed a number of advanced Rev. A techniques to achieve voice quality and capacity comparable to traditional circuit-switched voice services, including: Mobile receive diversity, equalization, interference cancellation and IP overhead reduction algorithms, which collectively optimize network capacity End-to-end quality of service and enhanced speech-processing algorithms, which improve voice quality and ensure a consistent user experience “EV-DO Rev. A's high-quality VoIP capabilities lead the way to combining VoIP with a wide variety of mobile data services,” said Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, chief operating officer of QUALCOMM. “Wireless service trends are leading toward delivering rich, simultaneous multimedia services over a converged data network, and VoIP plays a key role in this migration.” EV-DO Rev. A allows more integrated IP-based voice, video and data services, such as rich voice, push-to-connect, low-delay gaming and packet-switched video telephony. These services, and the converged devices that support them, allow operators to provide customers with new differentiated services and a high-quality user experience. EV-DO Rev. B - the next step in EV-DO's evolutionary path - allows operators to combine Rev. A channels for increased performance and capacity. QUALCOMM achieved a significant milestone in this evolution with a live, over-the-air demonstration of Rev. B that achieved a 9.3 Mbps downlink data rate in 5 MHz. This first implementation of Rev. B is available as a software upgrade to existing Rev. A channel cards. The Rev. B standard supports peak data rates of up to 14.7 Mbps. Rev. B offers broadband performance in a fully mobile environment with a consistent user experience across the coverage area. Furthermore, Rev. B networks will be 100 percent backward compatible and fully support all existing Rev. A devices and services. Additionally, the handover between Rev. B and Rev. A/Rel. 0 is seamless. This seamless handover allows for a hotspot deployment of a Rev. B system within the already deployed Rev. A system. “Through progressive evolution, EV-DO is enabling operators to offer new service bundles supporting a mix of low-latency and high data-rate applications, from VoIP to mobile broadband, all on a single converged network.” Jha continued. “These demonstrations underscore the strength of the evolution path and its success in providing converged broadband services.”