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To: TobagoJack who wrote (70215)	8/15/2008 3:37:35 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Hi and welcome to the Free World TJ. More cogently? Hmmmm... I guess "Don't worry, be happy". "Life's a giggle" [to quote my deceased mother in law - died Oct 2007]. Yes, ElM has booted me for good, which is no bad thing. Saves me a lot of reading time. I was going to not bother replying to you when I clicked "reply" to your post, not realizing you had posted to me over there to a very old post, and I got "Get lost you are banned". But then I thought I should join you in sniping from over the border, hence my post, which was really just a courteous reply. You have pretty good reading ability so I'm sure you can get sufficient meaning from my posts to you without a summary. Gung Ho, Mqurice [the "Hog" in my previous post was a typo sorry - no meaning implied] Gung Ho is used in the original sense, not the Americanized meaning.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (70215)	8/26/2008 2:28:24 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

TJ Here's something for you to wave away with a casual flick of your wrist: Message 24879475 You can look upstream for what China should do instead - should have done a decade ago but the USA bombing the Belgrade embassy was understandably annoying. China has a speciality and it's working for not much money. Invention is not their forte. In the globalized world, each place has strengths to play to. For example New Zealand is good at borrowing money from Japan to revalue their houses higher. I disagree that that is a strength, but it has been very popular and New Zealanders think they have succeeded with that investment strategy. China's strength is knocking off inventions from intelligent foreigners, ignoring intellectual property rights and making the stuff from plastic instead of titanium, selling it cheaply to the gullible. Some knock-offs are good quality but is theft of intellectual property and thereby fraud. I disagree that fraud is a strength, but Chinese seem to think it is. Their "CDMA invented by China", namely TD-SCDMA, is in the fine tradition of knock-off.. People foolishly think it is actually supposed to do something in consumer applications. Hopefully China will ditch the TD-SCDMA and go Gung Ho with Qualcomm, Huawei, and others on making CDMA/OFDMA in 450MHz/700MHz/800MHz etc a great success around the world. HSPA/LTE etc are okay but there's a much higher royalty involved [12% vs 5%] since the Euros gerry-mandered the standard to include bells and whistles using their patents so they could get a piece of the action, ring-fencing in anti-competitive action the GSM base. Anyway, I have more than used up your attention span and been less than cogent. Maybe there's a 5 word slogan which could summarize the situation. Slogans are much easier than actual thinking. Unfortunately, slogans lead to problems all too often. And remember the slogan: "Don't let a slogan do your thinking for you". Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (70215)	8/27/2008 12:47:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

TJ, cogently, so you can understand it easily, $5 billion is a little more than just 3 people saying TD-SCDMA is a loser. Note that they will be supplying CDMA2000 based equipment, NOT TD-SCDMA. You might wave it away with a flick of your wrist, but your bosses are not waving or flicking. They are shopping. <ZTE, Huawei: Big Winners of China Telecom's CDMA Orders Tuesday, August 26, 2008; BEIJING, Aug 26, 2008 (SinoCast China IT Watch via COMTEX) -- CHU \| Quote \| Chart \| News \| PowerRating -- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., ZTE Corporation (SZSE: 000063 and SEHK: 0763) and Alcatel- Lucent (NYSE: ALU \| Quote \| Chart \| News \| PowerRating) shared the CNY 27.9 billion CDMA equipment contracts from state-owned telecommunications operator China Telecom. China Telecom, which was encouraged to take over the CDMA network from China Unicom in the nation's telecommunications industry regrouping, unveiled the result of its bidding invitation for CDMA equipment on August 20 in a statement. Huawei and ZTE, two leading telecommunications equipment producers in China, both won about 40% of the orders, followed by Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), with approximately 20%, according to the statement. In addition, Fujian Fujitsu Communication Software (FFCS) also got part of the contracts. China Telecom revealed previously that it would pump at least CNY 80 billion into its newly-acquired CDMA network in the following three years. It kicked off the first round of bidding for CDMA equipment in July 2008, two months after the nation released its telecoms industry revamp plan. ... continued...> Gung Ho, Mqurice PS: Uncle Bill recently visited 1 The Bund, Shanghai, where his father used to work back in the day. Bill was conceived on New Years eve 31 December 1922 [he thinks]. Grandfather [who I never met] was helping China in the oil business. It's nice that I am able to help China 100 years later in the mobile cyberspace business. Meanwhile, like your grandfather, you flick away with the wave of a hand the generous assistance. Plus ca change. Cousin Roger flies big passenger aircraft to Shanghai. We are determined to help China, come Hell or high water. If they won't buy opium, maybe they'll go for the more seductive allure of those anodyne CDMA/OFDMA phragmented photons bringing peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love.