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To: rhet0ric who wrote (11115)	6/4/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: 2brasil	Respond to of 152472

QUALCOMM Supports Comverged Standard for IMT-2000 San Diego, June 2 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated , the world's leading developer of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology for commercial wireless communications, today publicly announced its full support for convergence of CDMA proposals for the third-generation International Telecommunications Union(ITU) IMT-2000 standard. QUALCOMM strongly endorses the widely held view that a unified, global CDMA standard for wireless communications systems is in the best interest of manufacturers, operators and consumers worldwide. QUALCOMM believes it is essential that the chosen IMT-2000 standard be equally compatible with both core GSM and TIA/EIA-41 networks that together will server perhaps one billion subscribers before IMT-2000 systems are widely deployed. QUALCOMM further believes it is essential that he new standard demonstrate improved performance over existing and evolved standards prior to final specification. QUALCOMM continues to work with standards bodies around the world to achieve convergence of the different IMT-2000 proposals, including compatibility with the present CDMA standard, cdmaOne(TM), when performance is not compromised. Unfortunately, as noted by the CDMA Development Group (COG) in their May 7, 1998 statement, certain companies may want convergence with W-CDMA and Wideband cdmaOne to fail for competitive reasons. Companies may believe they are serving their own narrow self interest by imposing specifications, such as the choice of chip rate, that are purposefully incompatible with cdmaOne or with TIA/EIA-41. However, several of these specifications, if left unchanged, would result in networks that are less efficient in the use of spectrum and provide lower quality at higher cost for voice and medium rate data than the evolved capabilities of cdmaOne in commercial use several years earlier. Further information on details and advantages of a converged standard will be posted on the Company's web site at qualcomm.com. As a result of its early and unique leadership role in CDMA, QUALCOMM has an extensive CDMA patent portfolio with over 130 CDMA patents issued and more than 400 patent applications pending in the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea, China and elsewhere around the world. QUALCOMM has informed appropriate standards bodies in writing in conformance with their policies that it believes many of these patents and patent applications are essential to the implementation of the leading CDMA proposals for the IMT-2000 standard, including the W-CDMA and Wideband cdmaOne proposals. QUALCOMM intends to license its essential patents on reasonable terms and conditions free from unfair discrimination for a single converged IMT-2000 standard, or, if not achieved, only for Wideband cdmaOne. It has so licensed over 55 manufacturers of cdmaOne equipment, including most major telecommunications manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia, and has extended or is preparing to extend these bilateral agreements. QUALCOMM intends to review its royalty rates within the context of the market size, that will be achieved by a single converged standard. Although QUALCOMM has recently entered into a royalty-bearing license agreement with Philips Consumer Communications LP that includes use of QUALCOMM's patents in the W-CDMA standard QUALCOMM has no intention of generally licensing its essential patent portfolio for any IMT-2000 standard (such as W-CDMA) that is purposefully made incompatible with cdmaOne and TIA/EIA-41 without providing a material benefit to the industry.

To: rhet0ric who wrote (11115)	6/4/1998 1:08:00 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

rhet0ic, Doesn't the slower chip rate mean that the design and manufacture of any new w-cdma/cdmaone phone will be cheaper (i.e. fewer parts)? And, if this is the case, wouldn't it follow that the design and manufacture of a w-cdma/gsm phone is also significantly reduced? Although degrading the Seinfeld playback frame rate, why isn't this a good situation for all concerned parties? Thanx for any and all help here. As is obvious, I'm a techno dullite. nf