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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (489)	3/15/1998 5:40:00 AM
From: Dragonfly	Respond to of 29987

"Iridium is talking cdmaOne [which is the only CDMA they'll be using - forget about Ericsson's vapourwear] for their second constellation. That means more royalties for Qualcomm." Don't count those royalties yet. CDMA isn't a technology exclusive to Qualcomm. When I first started researching spaced based communications, I came across a journal of IEEE articles from the 1976-1977 period that discussed techniques for doing both TDMA and CDMA. Iridium could be using another implementation of CDMA. (Unless Qualcomm has managed to patent some type of CDMA feature that would be essential.) Not a flame, just a minor point of fact. Dragonfly