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

To: engineer who wrote (62652)	4/14/2007 1:31:44 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197214

The Famous Lemmings Line ... engineer, << Sadly, these guys posting had some real connection to the other side. sadly they wrote just plain crap and wrote whatever they wanted back then. there was no PR war of IMJ taking on these idiots. >> In August 1994, shortly after a visit to San Diego by Chinese Wireless admins who decided to forgo CDMA until it was sufficiently matured and commercially available and begin to implement GSN nationwide instead, and about the time when the QUALCOMM/Ericsson Public Pi$$ing Contest was gathering full steam and litigation between Ericsson and QUALCOMM commenced, QUALCOMM co-founder Andrew Viterbi got his rocks off with his famous lemmings line ... "Sadly European engineers, conditioned partly by the satellite TDMA large terminal networks that were then just sprouting on that continent, based their digital cellular standard on TDMA, although none of the conditions favoring that technology applied to terrestrial networks of very large numbers of very small mobile terminals. North America and Japan followed the European example, much as lemmings follow one another in a frenzied rush to reach the edge of a cliff and fall into the sea below." ¹ ¹ "The Evolution of Digital Wireless Technology from Space Exploration to Personal Communication Services" -- Andrew Viterbi IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 43, No. 3, August, pp. 638-644 -- That article and the dueling QUALCOMM v. Ericsson, Ericsson v. QUALCOMM whitepapers published in mid-'94 published not too long after I moved from the financial transaction processing market into the nascent market for mobile wireless data was a rude (and crude) introduction to the crudest "marketing" tactics I'd ever witnessed. QUALCOMM's tactics were as crude as Ericsson's or vice versa. This before I first saw CDMA demonstrated in AT&T labs in Basking Ridge, NJ in November 1994 and almost 2 years before I participated in the precommercial BAM CDMA trials in Trenton as a friendly users as guest of my user, the BAM/NYNEX CDPD team assisting in the trials and debugging. Sleep well, - Eric -