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To: Quincy who wrote (8275)	2/9/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 152472

A nice day to you as well, Quincy. Great to hear you have something positive to say about even one of my posts. I'm thrilled to hear that Motorola is now promising to ship a CDMA phone maybe in April. So they are just ten months or so late of their original target. Your point on other companies shunning Qualcomm's chips is dead on. Major companies do not want to depend on chips coming from their direct competitor, so they design their own. Even if it takes ages, deprives CDMA customers of real choice in the meanwhile and allows GSM phones keep a technological edge. Not good for CDMA. Qualcomm can't create a strong mobile phone field all on its own even if it was a great phone maker, which it isn't by any objective standard. Don't even mention the Koreans. They went into CDMA in the first place because they weren't competitive in the GSM field (as reported by WSJ). I've heard about Samsung's demo. So if they now get the CDMA phone/PDA combo to the market by 1999 they will lag the first GSM smartphone by three years. There is no Nokia 9000, because Nokia is basically hostile towards Qualcomm's CDMA. Just like the vast majority of major manufacturers. Hence the false starts and dated technology in the product introductions. I believe that Qualcomm holds the key to W-CDMA when I see it reported in WSJ, Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune or some other major business publication. Not Total Telecom. You would think that it would be such a news bomb that these major publications would pick it up, wouldn't you? Best regards, Tero