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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (832)	8/5/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Clean	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Would that be a positive spin or a negative spin? Regards.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (832)	8/5/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, it is not a network. It is an experimental demonstration of Qualcomm's technology. A bit like a symphony orchestra might do a version of the 1812 Overture in Milano, perhaps leaving out singing, cannon and cymbals. They should not claim to be the inventor and should pay royalties to him. It isn't an order that Nokia could 'land'. It is another effort by Ericsson to defend their GSM base by pretending they can produce a high data rate cellular CDMA system when they can't. Not without stealing or licensing Qualcomm's system. Which Qualcomm has said will not happen unless it has the right bit rate and backward compatibility with cdmaOne. Look at this silly claim by Ericsson: " Ericsson has had its own live WCDMA test bed up and running since 1995." It was in the news about the Italian experiment. 1995! The GSM camp denied cellular CDMA would work at all until mid 1996. It wasn't until the subscriber base built up to numbers which could not be ignored that they admitted cdmaOne would work at all, but still claimed hopeless capacity, doubts about operation under load, negligible advantage and being late to market would make cdmaOne fail. Now Ericsson is hoping to prove Qualcomm's technology works in Japan, Italy and Sweden. What a pack of con-men L M Ericsson is!! But maybe they had some sort of CDMA in operation. After all, it has been around a long time. But the implication is that they had something suitable for cellphones! Hahahahaha!!! After the years of denial, it is such a joke that Ericsson claims to be a pioneer in CDMA. Now, on the other hand, Nokia got into cdmaOne early and I have no doubt will be able to translate their brilliant performance into the new world of cdmaOne and cdma2000. I read a bit about the boss of Nokia and he sounded a pretty decent sort of guy. Time will tell. Maurice