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To: LarsA who wrote (72751)	12/28/2007 10:01:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 196684

I have never understood the hype over things like the Olympic Games which are a lot of fun for those involved and their supporters, but the number of people who will actually go to Beijing will hardly raise the number of people in Beijing, let alone China. Even if ALL those people stayed there permanently, it wouldn't be a big deal. But they only stay a month or so [or less]. Here's what China should do: Message 24168178 Gang up with QUALCOMM to produce OFDM 450MHz with a 2% in-China royalty with multimode CDMA2000 EV-DO/Wi-Fi, multiband. Fill China with that and leverage it to the rest of the world. That would put Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson, D'oh!CoMo and the other W-CDMA bludgers in their place and earn China umpty mega $billions to make Korea's CDMA cash flow look small. Korea ganged up with QUALCOMM and China has an opportunity to do the same. But they are piddling it down the drain with their stupid TD-SCDMA which will never see the light of day in China, let alone the rest of the world. [Maybe it will be a hobbyist thing in China by State Edict]. Mqurice

To: LarsA who wrote (72751)	12/29/2007 10:25:03 AM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 196684

Lars--again we hear this silly "Olympics" stuff. Silly and not so silly. I believe getting a 3G network in place was an obligation in bidding for the Games. EDGE and TD-SCDMA would suffice. The real issue here is the nominal deadline for licensing. When things were most hyped I posted that the deep-rooted Communists scowled at the whole ostentatious thing. 3G was to them an outright obscenity rife with games and pornography. No "need" for it all. A few steps down from there we get "silly". The other side is the expensive showcase thing, but there are very few big international gatherings... World Fairs and Olympic Games is about it. It's easy to diss the impracticality of it all, but probably better and more fun to get with it. Aside from the communication efficiency and productivity angles, there's a lot of Chinese popular and industrial pressure to sell 3G. You've stated here many times that you're just not into it, that mobile phones are for talking, so you're a tough sell and not the target, Lars. But there seems to be a common thread among the Korean, Japanese and Chinese cultures that takes to the tools and their applications. The Chinese market for mobile data will be vast. The Olympics has been designated as a starting line. (OT-- I get the point about "live". I'm likewise usually uninterested in stocked trout. These Olympics will showcase a China that hundreds of millions of people stuck in their stereotypes are still unaware of. There were comments on the pre-Ramsey board not many years ago that were incredibly ignorant. The gov't needs to put on a good show. 3G is a side event. Right now, there's a much bigger problem of intense air pollution in Beijing, with talk of cancelling some events. They'll probably shut the factories down just before and during the Olympics.)