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To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (6571)	12/17/1997 2:33:00 PM
From: Walter Liu	Respond to of 152472

All It is widely known in cellular industry the IS-95 standard calls for 1.25Mhz per link is because the US cellular band restriction allocated by FCC. In the A prime cellular band, there is only 1.5Mhz per link. If IS95, later renamed CDMA One, has called anything > 1.5 Mhz, the cellular operators who owns the A prime band will never be able to use it for CDMA. In order for the US cellular operators to fully utilize their existing bands for future digital technology, IS95 has to limit itself < 1.5Mhz per link. It is also widely known in cellular industry that Qualcomm originally proposed 3-5Mhz per link and compromised because backward sprectrum competibility issue. Qualcomm proposed 1.25Mhz not because of technical difficulty, but for the benefit of US cellular operator. Neither of these are concerns of Ericssion, anyone notice no US celluar operator chose GSM as an upgrade of their AMPS network? Talk about lost bussiness..