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To: bananawind who wrote (10211)	4/23/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: w2j2	Respond to of 152472

PARIS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Mobile telephone makers, operators and regulators agreed on Thursday on worldwide standards for the next generation of high-performance cell phones, delegates at a telecommunications standards meeting in Paris said. The hard-fought compromise paved the way for the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a new standard due to offer clients features like two-way text messaging, video and Internet access by the year 2002. It included elements from two competing proposals, one based on the W-CDMA technology backed by Finland's Nokia (HELS:NOKS.A) and Sweden's Ericsson (SWED:LME.B) and the other on TD-CDMA technology favoured by Germany's Siemens (FSE:SIEG) and the U.S. group Motorola (NYSE:MOT). "The goal of this proposal is to offer the competitive long-term solution for GSM evolution to UMTS," a statement by the European telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) conference said. Each rival had powerful backing from manufacturers and telecommunications authorities around the world, who wanted to ensure a smooth transition from GSM, the de facto world standard now, to a new generation. "The proposal has key elements of both proposals," GSM operators association chairwoman Adriana Nugter told Reuters. "It is very good that Asian, European and American manufacturers are happy with this proposal." The text of the approved proposal showed the compromise formula was basically the W-CDMA technology modified to ensure it works with GSM, has FDD/TDD dual mode operations and fits in the 2-to-5 megahertz band required for the U.S. market. The meeting brought together manufacturers, operators and regulators to end a dispute between Europe's mobile telephone manufacturers. ETSI said it would hold a news conference at 5 p.m. (1600 GMT) to announce the result of the meeting, which brought together some 437 different players in the world cellular phone market. The ETSI meeting voted for the W-CDMA technology on Wednesday, but failed to give it the 71 percent majority that ETSI rules require. The Nordic-backed W-CDMA technology is a CDMA standard fully compatible with the current Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology. The rival camp proposed TD-CDMA, a CDMA standard combining elements of the Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), used in Asia, Europe and other regions. The Nordic alliance is backed by Japan's DoCoMo, the mobile arm of Japan's largest telecom operator NTT (TOKYO:9432). It also claims support from Britain's largest mobile phone operator Vodafone (ISEL:VOD), British Telecom (ISEL:BT), Finnish Telecom, the Swiss national telecoms operator and Koninklijke PTT Nederland NV (AMS:KPN) of the Netherlands. Siemens, on the other hand, is backed by Alcatel Alsthom (SBF:CGEP), Italtel SpA 1/8ITAL.CN 3/8, Sony Corp (TOKYO:6758) and Northern Telecom Ltd (TSE:NTL). Lucent Technologies Inc (NYSE:LU) said it had not yet made up its mind and saw advantages to both systems. Europe is the world leader in mobile telephony thanks to its GSM standard, which has become the de facto global standard and now has some 66 million subscribers in 110 countries. The United Nations-linked International Telecommunications Union (ITU), based in Geneva, is also studying standards for cellular telephony and is expected to recommend one of them by end of 1999. paris.newsroom@reuters.com))

To: bananawind who wrote (10211)	4/23/1998 5:26:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

That's right Jim, and if the Fed hadn't been printing flat out, your new HP would have cost you 20 bucks instead of 70! Deflation. And deflation is great when it comes from creativity. Which there is heaps of. It seems that people have realized that profit is not as important as sales, quality control, competitive position, infrastructure success, all of which have hit a soft patch for Qualcomm. Meanwhile, the bidding on frequency continues apace by Qualcomm. But I'm sticking with it - because I expect results like your sign off. Mqurice Dow 16000 Feb 2002