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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22103)	9/7/2007 1:44:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217656

Whatever.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (22103)	9/7/2007 3:32:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217656

Good point TJ: < best you get something marked "made in USA" and soon, before it becomes a collector's item > You obviously realized you are onto a collector's item with your swanky new [not so new now in internet time] CDMA powered cyberphone. I hadn't thought of them as collector's items, but I do have a bag full of old cell-phones which I have collected over the centuries, including Globalstar phones by L M Ericsson and QUALCOMM . Hopefully they will take over from where base-ball cards left off. They might even do better as collector's items than US$. It's not ready yet, but soon you will be able to buy OFDM-powered cyberphones by QUALCOMM, and hopefully in Globalstar version. You will be able to cerf cyberspace really fast then, and cheaper too. In 450MHz spectrum, the cost of rolling out OFDM pixelation processes will be near zero. Even while China is wasting their time and money with their dopey TD-SCDMA which will be obsolete before they get it going, OFDM is coming up. If you know anyone in China, you should warn them that they are being sold a bill of goods with their TD-SCDMA. What Huawei and everyone else in China should do is leap-frog everyone and go Gung Ho with 450MHz OFDM in cahoots with QUALCOMM [in dual mode versions in the initial stages, with GPRS/CDMA/W-CDMA options until 450MHz coverage is everywhere] China would in one step go from behind everyone to ahead of everyone. They would also have something they could export to everyone on Earth and more competitively than anyone on Earth. Their TD-SCDMA is an Albanian/North Korean/Cuban/Maoistic Great Wall of China fearfulness of foreign devils. It's the equivalent of Japan's PHS systems which were useful in Japan for a few years, but never went anywhere else, of course. It's a shame to see China go backwards, while thinking they are going forwards. To save face, they could keep some people on TD-SCDMA, maybe even rolling out a few test networks, but get them to make it dual mode OFDM, starting by working on the OFDM component to ensure it's ready as soon as possible. I have a plan which I might also give to China, which would make all their current "Made in China" efforts look minor. But first, I would like to see them succeed in OFDM. I will happily vote my stock to invest $10 billion in China to get it happening fast. If they check the royalty situation, they will find OFDM is a lot more competitive than CDMA. Not that QUALCOMM royalties are significant, but people whine about them although they are quarter of GSM royalties and a third of W-CDMA and even a single poxy little obvious patent from Broadcom has garnered $6 per handset for them. QUALCOMM is only charging China 2.3% royalty [maybe it's 2.2 or 2.4, I forget the precise number but it's about 2%] for CDMA inside China so I dare say they could get a comparable deal for OFDM and the patent wall at QUALCOMM [there is actually a patent wall, with all the patents on plaques]. Get Hu Jintao to phone Irwin Jacobs and have a chat about it. I assume they can talk to each other, but I'll arrange translation if needed - would you be available? I don't pay much because I mostly do things for no cost, other than my investments and even those are in the nature of philanthropic investing = take a big chance in the hopes of making the world better. But it would probably not be a big job for you to take on. You'd have to learn some lingo to translate 'CDMA and OFDM phragmented photons for mobile cyber-cerfing' into Mandarin, but that would be a fun little hobby for a while. Irwin would be happy to help. When Shanghai/China was taking in Jews when they were being lined up for murder in the early 20th century, few other countries were taking them. I'm sure Irwin would be happy to do a favour in return. Especially one of mutual benefit, as taking in Jews was at the time. Give Hu a call right now!! Well, maybe wait until after 10am Beijing time. Report back here so we can see how you are getting on. Go on, do it. There's more to life than Greedy Gold Gloating. Your grandfather did some foreign affairs stuff. Here's your chance to follow in his footsteps. Make Ai Li proud! You could give her the first 450MHz OFDM-powered cyberphone. I'd be pleased to buy one for her. It would be quite a collector's item. I bought our offspring a CDMA-powered cellphone each back in the day. One of my happy days was standing out the front of the QUALCOMM "Design Building" HQ in Lusk Boulevard sandiegometro.com decades and centuries ago, phoning home on my newly-acquired QCP 820 CDMA cell-phone. Mqurice PS: History seems to go around in circles. 100 years ago, one of my grandfathers was in China delivering oil technology and management to Dalian and Shanghai. Now I am delivering CDMA to Dalian and Shanghai [albeit from way over here, but that's the nature of cyberspace = you don't have to actually BE there to do something].