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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (901)	8/16/2007 10:43:42 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9132

QUALCOMM and 3GPP TSG GERAN NS, << Maybe Eric can pipe in and tell us if any Qualcomm employee actually attended any GERAN SSO meetings or if they just monitored their activities from afar via consultants. >> I've answered or commented on that here and/or on other QUALCOMM boards several times before. The short answer is that employees of QUALCOMM, QUALCOMM Europe S.A.R.L., and/or QUALCOMM UK Ltd., have been in attendance at every 3GPP TSG GERAN plenary meeting since 3GPPGERAN-#1 (GP-01 in Seattle) in August 2000. These meetings are held quarterly and the 3GPP GERAN standards are updated immediately following the plenary meetings to reflect updates to standards specifications based on results off the meeting. You can verify that by going here ... 3gpp.org ... clicking on 'Participants' and searching 'QUALCOMM' on that page. For further information on what transpired at each plenary meeting of GERAN I'd recommend drilling down from the 3GPP FTP site to the GERAN folder ... Message 23399683 << What is known about GSM/EDGE is that Qualcomm was not responsible for the inclusion of their property in the standard because only companies who previously manufactured GSM base equipment were allowed to vote on the setting of new standards. >> That statement is totally inaccurate. << I also believe, but may be mistaken, that votes on the standard are distributed proportionally in some manner related to the revenue each company received from their sales of GSM related equipment (ie the cabal rules the roost). >> That applied to ETSI, not to the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and it applied to revenue generated in Europe by all members of ETSI participating in GSM and UMTS requirements setting and standards development • i.e. is network operators, regulators, etc., not simply manufacturers of GSM/3GSM (UMTS) equipment. QUALCOMM joined ETSI in October/November 1997 when it created and staffed QUALCOMM Europe S.A.R.L., headquartered near ETSI headquarters in Sophia-Antipolis, France. Standards development of W-CDMA had begun in Japan's ARIB ~21 months earlier, Standards development of GSM Phase 2+ R'97 which included GPRS had begun in ETSI in the summer immediately after ETSI had voted that evolved GSM would be the core network (CN) for 3G UMTS while the two UTRA access modes • W-CDMA and W-TDMA/CDMA • were balloted by ETSI membership in January 1998. The initial EDGE specifications are a component of R'98. UMTS (3GPP 3G) development was transferred from ETSI (and ARIB) to 3GPP in January 1999. GSM development began the transfer to 3GPP in August 2000 and that transfer was completed about nine months later. QUALCOMM participates in (has participated in) 3GPP GERAN and 3GPP 3G by virtue of its membership in the ETSI SDO. Best, - Eric -