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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (1330)	2/11/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: DWB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5390

Caxton - "Europe is about to outlaw competition"??? Surely you jest.... All they've done is set up a form within which companies can work... now it's up to those companies to maximize service to their customers within that form. If anything they've increased the future competition, since everyone will know the boundaries within which their systems will have to operate. In case you hadn't noticed, there is still a great deal of competition within Europe, even though GSM is the standard. It's just that companies compete on services which the customer actually cares about, rather than some esoteric incompatible air interface that is only important to the infrastructure providers. With the enormous expenses for setting up a network, and the problems with coverage and services when non-compatible standards exist, it's no wonder there are so many companies behind this effort. And the usage of GSM to date has been such a success, why shouldn't they think it would have a similar result with a standardization of the next gen. systems? "Another reason why QCOM folks despise ericy(GSM) tactics"????? So everyone else involved in the agreement is pure and untainted? Siemens, Nokia, Alcatel, Motorola, NTT, they've all been duped by Ericsson.... puhleaze. "Tell me they aren't scared to death..." OK... they aren't scared to death. The CDMA-GSM overlay is nice, but why would you expect those companies to just sit there and do nothing about third generation systems? Do you expect them to just roll over and play dead? Even if there wasn't 1 standard for Europe, those companies would still be developing their third generation hardware which would most likely be the predominant implementation. Oh, by the way.... for those interested... another $200 million contract for those eeeeeeeeeeeevil Swedes... biz.yahoo.com DWB