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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22147)	9/8/2007 5:20:35 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

TJ, there are no OFDM phones available yet. Maybe in two or three years.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (22147)	9/8/2007 5:25:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

TJ, there is a thing called cherry picking. For example, Korean CDMA licensees looked over the fence and saw Chinese companies were enjoying royalties of about 2% while they were paying about 5%. They whined like a fleet of 747s, demanding the same royalty. QUALCOMM pointed out to them that export royalties from China were 7% rather than the 5% that the Korean companies were enjoying and invited them to sign up to the same contract as the Chinese companies were enjoying. The Koreans went quieter, but kept whining about royalties in general - believing that they should get a free lunch, free CDMA and presumably free 0FDM. If you read the fine print in my original offer, you will see a certain mention of a man by the name of Hu Jintao, who is a kleptocrat enjoying being boss of China, Tibet, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hainan and wannabe boss of Taiwan. As an incentive for you to help get OFDM in 450MHz going around the world, and especially in China, and in the absence of payment for your translation assistance, I offered to provide Ai-Li with one of said 450MHz OFDM cyberphones when Hu Jintao and co have gone Gung Ho and actually invented them. At present, there is NO 450MHz OFDM in China, or Hong Kong, Tibet, Shanghai, Hainan or Taiwan and certainly no devices available to buy to use on those networks. Or anywhere else for that matter, though Finland is setting up a network. TD-SCDMA is the dead-end alley up which China is being forced, which is intended to steal even the last little bit of intellectual property payment from QUALCOMM. Refusing to pay even 2% is greedy to a very high degree and shows the wisdom of QUALCOMM recognizing the grabby ways of those in China by making it 7% for export and 2% for local. One would think that 2% is such a laughably low royalty, that China would pay it. W-CDMA royalties are 12%. GSM 16% [though some of those patents must have expired by now]. Anyway, let me know when you have got 450MHz OFDM going in China so you can all move onto the best system in the world instead of dead-end TD-SCDMA. You have got a chance to help China become top-notch place on the planet, while making vast fortunes from OFDM. As a guide, check out how much money Korea has made from CDMA over a decade since they started selling it. Imagine how much money China could make if they got going flat out in 450MHzOFDM using their home-base 1.3 billion people to support its development. Or, you could just ogle your gold some more. Go on, make that call. Hu will be happy? I will! You will. If you get it going, I will provide said 450MHz OFDM swanky cybercerfer. Until you get it going, they won't be available. Mqurice PS: That's funny, I asked Google for his phone number to save you the trouble of locating it and can't find it. Maybe it's written in Mandarin somewhere.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (22147)	12/28/2007 9:24:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

TJ, it seems that TD-SCDMA is doomed even before it is born. Tero Kuittinen, our old SI buddy from 1996, has written a good article. Message 24167617 TD-SCDMA doesn't have a hope in hell. It looks as though it's Game Over, bar the shouting. China should quit wasting time, acting like Albania and North Korea, and join up with QUALCOMM to produce OFDM along Flarion lines. With 450MHz OFDM with multiband CDMA2000 EV-DO/Wi-Fi modes optional and maybe even W-CDMA/HSDPA built in too, China could leverage a huge national mobile cyberspace market into global dominance. Lacking imagination and being more interested in building Great Walls of China [walls are embedded in Chinese psyche it seems], they won't do that, so will go on to repeat history by being cheap labour for the people who do the creative stuff and earn the real money. Unless ... maybe some thoughtful youngish bloke who can see the writing on the wall will warn them of the error of their ways before it is too late and guide them onto the way to great prosperity and advancement. TD-SCDMA is toast. W-CDMA is a 12% royalty rort for the European cartel. OFDM450MHz is a cheap and cheerful but highly efficient technology [much better than the slow bit/hertz/second rate of the W-CDMA realm]. I bet QUALCOMM would agree to a 2% royalty in China for OFDM-based technology, as they did for CDMA2000. Paying a fortune to European carteliers for an inefficient W-CDMA system is silly when something much better is available, much cheaper. Go on, do something useful in life! Making money from buying sheep and selling deer is useful for personal expenditure, but the big game is elsewhere. Mqurice