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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (8741)	2/22/1998 2:53:00 PM
From: qdog	Respond to of 152472

I haven't seen a detailed proposal from ETSI, but would assume they have to deal with power control, softhand off, etc. Part of Ericsson's suposed failure a couple of years ago with CDMA was the power control & soft hand off. There, now am I still demoted??? If not go to the patent site and research it, as I'm not worried by all this. The US is moving forward with things like Frame relay and ATM, which as Lucent points out, works great with CDMA air interface. The Europeans rather stick to their oligarch TDMA aristocracy, which oddly enough works with old TDMA infrastucture that you don't have to pay royalties to use. Those patents have long since expired. By 2002 or whatever, Moore's Law will have render this proposal near useless for data users. There is to much conflict about this 3G standard. If NTT has already decided then why would LU even bother. Throw in the towel and go home. Now it should get real interesting around the time the ITU tackles the UMTS 2000. I find it highly suspect and intriguing that Ericsson would go to all this trouble with New and Improved, the real thing CDMA and still going to propose more antiquated TDMA channelized inefficency with the new and improved, wider inefficent, locked in channelized hard to grow TDMA proposal. They don't want CDMA, it's a ruse........