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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (7700)	1/28/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Quincy	Respond to of 152472

I suspect that you have picked up on a feeling that the author of that piece was either fed bad PR info or doesn't know the goal of Ericy is to completely avoid any compatibility and patent areas of the current cellular CDMA standard (IS95.) "Siemens' original proposal is compatible with the code division multiple access (CDMA) standard now used in the United States as well as the time division multiple access (TDMA) standards used in Europe, Asia and other regions." That doesn't sound right. The only common link between the two (IS136 and IS95) seems to be the IS41 call management protocol (whatever.) I thought that was the last thing they wanted to preserve. "Koch said the Siemens TD-CDMA would allow a smooth transition from the GSM digital mobile phone systems used now. ''We want to preserve the investment in the GSM base.''" So, they can preserve the call processing from GSM. How much is that really going to save the provider in face of a new phone design that is going to be a lot scarier to get working than TDMA/GSM. I suspect that the ETSI 3GW marketing campaign is slightly calmer than our White House press office after the Vodaphone/Qcom success.