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To: qdog who wrote (8532)	2/15/1998 8:26:00 AM
From: Raymond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

qdog No DECT is not proprietary.Ericsson contrary to how QCOM and MOT (The masters of proprietary protocols) do business try to get their ideas through the standardbodies.Thats what happened with DECT.Ericsson developed it and proposed it as a standard in ETSI and it was adopted.I see that as a sign of strength.It seems that Motorola can't compete anymore when there is open standards.Where they dominate is where they own the standard. I think that's one of the reason why Motorola was so keen on CDMA. They saw that their 2 big competitors in the infrastructuremarket for GSM didn't make any equipment for IS-95 and saw their chance. It's interesting how this thread has changed position on W_CDMA before the adoption by ETSI it was just waporvare and some panic-standard from Ericsson.Now the postion is how a big victory for QCOM this was.All the CDMA-vendors took the position against it. NT,LU,MOT,SONY.All the big ones that had a vote in ETSI was against a clean CDMA-solution. Why? I think the answer is the same as the thing I write of above.They are so afraid of the competence of the Nordic companies that they are afraid that they will lose here also the same as they did in GSM.I mean they have many years of experiences of production of CDMA-equipment so they should have a big advantage.How can they stand up in front of their CDMA and other customers and motivate their vote in ETSI.I think everyone among the operators understood that the american companies just tried to stall the standard.Lucent as one of the infrastructuresuppliers for NTT has probably lost a lot of face in Japan.But they probably thought that it was so important to stall W-CDMA that they thought it was worth it.The position of Lucent has been reported as neutral to positive to the TDMA/CDMA hybrid.The other CDMA vendors was openly for the hybrid. Quincy! I have no idea how much the cost was to develop DECT. R