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To: Raymond who wrote (852)	8/10/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: marginmike	Respond to of 34857

I hate to break it to you but France, Italy, Switz, and Germany make up the majority of the population in Europe. I have never been to sweeden or fineland but they are secoindary countries in Europe. The majority of European countries are very pertectionist and have been for hundreds of years. The mentality of merchantilism and colonialism created such an aproach. The united States obviously has in its history been purtecionist also. However from the open door policy in china to the US laissaiz-Faire policies the USA has a much better record of free trade. If you dont understand History theres no point arguing with you! As for CDMA having elements of GSM, I am not Technologically knowledgable to debate. However I do know that Erickson in 1995-96 said CDMA would never work, and that it was a scam. Now they say they were working on it and created it. I will assume from this, and the fact that Erickson has no operational CDMA anything(including handsets) that Erickson is not credible. As for ETSI, they being a European consortiun are obviosly biased, as an American standards board is. My question for you is, why shouldnt Qcom not be entitled to its IPR's. They have the patents irespective of who did what! What right do European Competitors have to demand how they will use those Technologies! If they dont like CDMA dont use any form of it. If they do then pay the price. Its very simple. You can justify ETSI's position anyway you like. Its simply not their right to tell Qcom to abandon all its CDMA network partners because there are more GSM networks in the world. Furthermore giving companies like Erickson an advantage after the Rhetoric being strewn.