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To: TobagoJack who wrote (23548)	10/5/2007 7:37:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217781

TJ, while my recognition of your amazing perspicacity was not sarcastic, there was a hint of tongue in cheek, perhaps not easily detected without high acuity radar. You should not lean too heavily on praise for being right about a particular thing for a short period of time. Especially when the person giving such praise is almost always wrong [other than a few odd instances when we have accidentally agreed about something - perhaps by miscommunication]. I take from your lack of argument that you have no basis other than belief in Beloved Big Brother and the wondrous Chinese DNA that TD-SCDMA is the way the truth and the light. I suppose it's a 21st century version of the Boxer Rebellion. "Down with the evil-doing foreign devils. We will invent our own CDMA". Which of course is as original an invention as a Timberlands pull-over or Burton snow-boarder jacket sold on the streets of Beijing. You would really like 450MHz OFDM and so would 1.3 billion Chinese and 5 billion other people. Few will even use, let alone like and definitely not love that hybrid TD-SCDMA cobbled together anachronism. Before it's up to critical mass, it'll be obsolete. Mqurice PS: I plead ignorance of history and admit that I am struggling for a historical parallel. I'll now ask Google about the Boxer Rebellion to see if there's a good fit, or any fit, other than being in China. But it's near enough for government work, as you say. Government work such as TD-SCDMA.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (23548)	10/6/2007 4:41:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217781

TJ, look how much Korea is making from CDMA royalties. In the early 1990s, they decided to go Gung Ho with CDMA and have led the world, making umpty $billions in sales, royalties, and using the technology themselves to great effect. China, on the other hand, is going Albanian/North Korean with their dopey TD-SCDMA from which they will make not a brass razzoo outside China, though they might succeed in inflicting it on some places in the Pacific Islands and Africa as part of foreign aid. Maybe Iran too and some other countries as part of trade deals. Message 23944346 <Another notable example is the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a state-funded non-profit think tank. It jointly developed commercial CDMA technology with Qualcomm of the United States, and earns royalties for its patent technology under a 1992 contract. Qualcomm is barred by the contract from disclosing its annual royalty revenue, but the institute earned 51.1 billion won in 2006 and 43.9 billion won in 2005. The institute has earned a cumulative 459.5 billion won in royalties. > US$500 million is handy. Save China from a fate worse than death. Make that call. 450MHz OFDM is the way to go. Ditch the TD-SCDMA. Go Gung Ho in the meantime with CDMA2000 EV-DO and HSDPA in W-CDMA technology. Fire up 802.11b/g/n too. Mqurice