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To: Raymond who wrote (7806)	1/31/1998 2:18:00 PM
From: brian h	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Raymond, I still do not get it. Why is it so important about seting a standard in Europe meaningful to the rest of the world? Go worry about Asia. ERICY and NOKA had even more exposures to Asia then QCOM. Why is it a WCDMA all of a sudden such a impotant agenda to ERICY and NOKA while they wree not talking about it just 1 1/2 year ago? Figure that one out before stressing the importance of WCDMA or CDMA-TDMA. How about a 4th generation CDMA? Or even better the 3rd generation GSM. May be that will really sacre me as a QCOM shareholder. Brian H.

To: Raymond who wrote (7806)	1/31/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: GO*QCOM	Respond to of 152472

The only Real Open System is the market, not the dictorial standard method employed by a political regime.The bottom line is QUALCOMM has the essential patents that make CDMA what it is today and the Europeans know it.QUALCOMM will continue to prosper speading(60% of th e worlds population has not even spoke on a phone once) CDMA narrowband voice systems all over the world in peoples homes as well as mobile.This is where the bread and butter is anyway not in data and viedio that wideband promises.People want voice at a good price hence the rocket taking off in the PCS market.By the time all this sorts out for 3 generation WCDMA QUALCOMM will be a world power in CDMA light years ahead of the competition who have yet to even put out a large CDMA phone.You say small GSM phone!My Q PHONE IS THE SEXEST very small sleek phone that comes in a box with a beautiful woman wearing the phone across her eyes.Yeah QUALCOMM is number one in the best digital on the planet and wait untill you see there smart phone.

To: Raymond who wrote (7806)	1/31/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

If that's the way you see it... Ok. WCDMAOne could not have been presented to ETSI as Qcom is not European. I thought that was obvious. Others may have been able to participate through European Subsidiaries, but was it entirely worth Qcom to buy one just for ETSI? "Im afraid that Qcom has lost now." I sure hope you aren't making stock decisions with that kind of delusion. You still don't understand that IS95c doesn't require new FCC licenses or frequencies or antennas or cellsites or subscriber units. If you want to surf the internet while driving down I5, buy your own IS95C box, I just want to make a phone call. As far as I am concerned, I have IS95C working this minute. I don't need it. But, it's availability will have ZERO affect on me. If my provider adds antenna sectors to improve capacity, I don't care. It just won't have any effect on my desire to make a phone call. Nothing else can make that claim. Especially anything from Europe. So, I guess that since you work for a GSM tree-hugging company here in SD, you have a working WCDMA phone now? Hmmm... So, when will you have one working? Haven't started the Asics yet? Better get started. If today's IS95 asics are any indication, you won't SEE a working phone for two years. Qcom is on at least its fourth or fifth generation. Battery life improves with every one. Tero should be pleased. Qcom's Vodaphone project works NOW. (We just don't know if Qcom is going to press forward with the project.) The only thing that changed this week is ETSI's members, including Ericy see an opportunity to maliciously "earn" a license from Qcom after Qcom spent millions to develop and prove that it works in the first place. Then, spend millions more as Ericy believes itself invented CDMA in the first place. How can you defend that kind of lunacy? "Fight everything in court." Don't stick your head in the sand. The only suit Qcom has filed is to defend itself against a company that ignores the fact that all laptop computers use the clamshell design, along with Ericy's and Nokia's PDA. About your drawn out diatribe re: WCDMA in the US. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. IS95 works well enough to attract paying voice customers to fund the absurdly expensive FCC license. Try that with your European WCDMA.

To: Raymond who wrote (7806)	1/31/1998 8:51:00 PM
From: qdog	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

Well that was alot of rambling. So let me get this straight, overnight the billions of dollars put into GSM, CDMAOne & TDMA will be render useless by the troika of Ericsson/Nokia/NTT 3G standard. A standard that is also going to support compatibility? Ah- huh. So much for ammortization of all those company assets. No Qualcomm didn't invent CDMA. Bell Labs did and probably hold the most patents on it. Qualcomm however solved the problems in deploying it in a wireless system. Do you know what the real difference is between QCOM version of CDMA and Ericsson's? About 3.75 Mhz of bandwidth per channel. That is it. Still far more wider than the legacy narrowband GSM system. But by Ericsson OWN admission, they abandon CDMA becasue they couldn't get it to work. Now they had a brainstorm?? Well lookie here. Why setlle for 5Mhz channels, shoot let's make it 6!!!!! As to your claim that QCOM stole from GSM, where did Ericsson steal it from? The only reason we started out with analog in cellular instead of digital was microelectronics wasn't there yet. There in fact was a great debate whether they should wait until digital could be resolved. The demand was to strong to hold off. As a matter of fact LD and interconnection of PTSN was already long migrating into digital by the time cellular first came out, which BTW is TDMA. Now, geewhiz, wonder what the GSM system is model after?? Steal, indeed!!! You say QCOM steals from Ericsson. Well just what kinda of error correction does Ericsson use in GSM? LEt see........he works for QCOM...holds personally a great many of patents himself......Dr. Viterbi ring a bell. Viterbi decoders are a BIG part of GSM. So who stole what and when?? Frankly, I'm sick of these "US is behind the times" nonsense. #G is going to be in the frequency range that PCS is in. The one major reason QCOM decided on 1.25 Mhz channel was the way the FCC envisioned PCS being divide up. Think that Europe or Japan will have five class of license for this service?? The FCC is dragging their feet on LMDS issuance. Winstar with it's frontier license is building out a very formidable wirless system that was orignally for digital video, but is instead going for Internet and voice now. By the time Europe bastardize this standard, we will see what they have. This is the same collective that mandated ISDN service for GSM, where is it?? It got cannabalized for voice via ADPCM techniques, stolen from whom???