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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (13399)	8/6/1998 7:44:00 AM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 152472

Tero, W-CDMA can't proceed without Q IPR, and today's press release states that they are "not prepared to grant irrevocable licenses under IPRs on terms and conditions in accordance with Clause 6.1 of the ETSI Interim IPR Policy." So, who cares what ERICY is testing? It is not going to be legal.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (13399)	8/6/1998 9:45:00 AM
From: 2brasil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Hey I love your posts a but w-cdma is nothing without qcom ipr and they have not granted permission qcom and I quote" SAN DIEGO, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - news) today announced it has submitted a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in response to ETSI's request for clarification of QUALCOMM's licensing position with respect to QUALCOMM's essential Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for one of the proposals for Third Generation (3G) digital wireless technology, Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA). In its response dated August 5, QUALCOMM stated that it is ''not prepared to grant irrevocable licenses under IPRs on terms and conditions in accordance with Clause 6.1 of the ETSI Interim IPR Policy.'' However, QUALCOMM says it continues to work with ETSI and its members as well as other bodies worldwide on convergence of cdma2000(TM), proposed by QUALCOMM and other members of the CDMA Development Group, and W-CDMA.