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To: Bill Morel who wrote (7590)	1/26/1998 3:54:00 PM
From: qdog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Gee, I hadn't thought abou that!! -:) The following is veerrryyyy interesting!! Those headaches are the squareness being rounded. Monday January 26 9:42 AM EST Mobile phone makers meet on combining standards HELSINKI (Reuters) - European mobile telephone systems makers have held talks on a compromise ahead of a crucial meeting this week to decide the standard for the next generation of mobile phones, company officials said. The talks involved Nordic telecommunications equipment makers Nokia and Ericsson, which have supported one system standard, and a group of companies around German Siemens AG, which has backed another. The remarks came ahead of a meeting of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) next week, which has been scheduled to decide which standard to adopt. An Ericsson spokesman told Reuters that Ericsson and other groups favouring a wide-band CDMA (code division multiple access) system had proposed on Friday a compromise based on its system but including elements from Siemens' standard. Siemens, with support from Alcatel SA, Italtel SpA, Sony , Sony Corp, Lucent Technologies Inc, Northern Telecom Ltd and Motorola In, backs a proposal that combines elements of the TDMA standard used in Europe, Asia and other regions, and the CDMA standard used in the United States. TDMA stands for time division multiple access. The Nokia-Ericsson proposal is only compatible with CDMA. "We are happy that now we can talk to each other," said Ake Persson, a senior official at Ericsson Radio Systems. Earlier Siemens said it welcomed the talks. Nokia spokeswoman Arja Suominen said her company hoped an agreement would be reached on a single, global standard. "Nokia is willing to open discussions with all parties involved regarding the development of third-generation systems, and Nokia hopes that a wide global standard will be reached," Suominen told Reuters. "We welcome Siemens' willingness to open discussions on a third-generation global standard," Suominen said, adding however that no deal had yet been reached. Suominen declined to speculate on the outcome of possible discussions or of the ETSI meeting scheduled for October 28 and 29 in Paris, where a final vote is scheduled to be taken on the proposals for a new standard. "As part of the European telecommunications industry, we hope that a unanimous decision on this issue could be reached and that the end result of that decision would be as global a standard as possible," Suominen said. A preliminary ballot among ETSI members in mid-December pointed to the Nokia-Ericsson standard being the favourite. (Reuters/Wired)