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To: kech who wrote (8602)	2/17/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Pierre	Respond to of 152472

Tero: First, here's a link to the news story. biz.yahoo.com The reason I do that instead of posting entire story is this matter of copyright - sort of like a patent on words You remember patents, don't you? It's the reason Nokia writes checks to QCOM. Its the reason ever larger and more numerous checks will be continue to be written to QCOM. Oh yea, the part about "we'll use another technology" - sure you will. It'll be that wwwcdma (using no QCOM patents, of course) born of the famous Nokia skunk works that gave us... - we'll, you get the point. Pay now (GSM overlay) or pay later (WCDMA). That's what the article says regardless of how you spin it. Pierre

To: kech who wrote (8602)	2/18/1998 10:09:00 AM
From: H. Bradley Toland, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Tom, this discussion with Tero dredges up the comment/question I had about ERICY a year ago, and that is Why isn't ERICY a licensee of QCOM and CDMA? They are a manufacturer and they should be concerned with selling whatever the public wants, not what ERICY thinks is best for them--notwithstanding their vested interest in GSM. The US wants CDMA, sell CDMA. Strategically, they could be making a bet that does them in, and all for not. Or, am I missing something? Brad