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To: Ramus who wrote (13044)	7/28/1998 8:23:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Thanks to you and all the Michaels for the Philips Consumer Communications W-CDMA licence information. Since the standard is not set, this must relate to cdma2000 because that is what Lucent/Philips is working towards along with high data rate systems which will satisfy most customers in the next year or two. If it also enables W-CDMA as per the Ericsson proposal, then there are automatically going to be two standards competing. With two bit rates. But Irwin was emphatic that no licensing would be done for systems not backward compatible to cdmaOne. So, where's the gap? Maybe to get hold of some Philips IPR in a timely way, Qualcomm had to let them use power control, rake receivers or soft handoff IPR in a generic way for terrestrial systems, be it W-CDMA-VW-3G-UMTS-YETIS type systems [cool name eh SurferM], or cdma2000. But then, what of Irwin's emphatic no, no, no to W-CDMA at the higher bit rate? I suppose the Philips licensing deal was to the effect that it included whatever 3G standard was agreed to in the standard setting process by Qualcomm. Which is not quite the same thing as saying Philips Consumer Communications LP can now start making the Ericsson type devices. Yeah, I'll go with that. Mqurice 3 days to go! What a rise this is going to be... Ericsson cashed out so they are a little out of favor.