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To: w2j2 who wrote (25)	10/20/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 426

US Trade representative visits EU: Brussels, Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- European Union restrictions on mobile-phone technology threaten to bar U.S. companies such as Qualcomm Inc. from gaining access to the European market, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said. On a visit to Brussels, Barshefsky urged EU regulators to either harmonize Europe's main wireless technology, global system for mobile communications, or GSM, with one from the U.S., or allow multiple standards as the U.S. now does. Code-division- multiple-access, or CDMA, was developed by Qualcomm of San Diego and competes against GSM. quote.bloomberg.com Clark

To: w2j2 who wrote (25)	10/20/1998 12:21:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 426

US Government asks Japan to consider CDMA-2000 or converged standard: Excerpt: Amidst growing pressure from the Clinton administration, Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is set to begin studying other third-generation radio transmission technology proposals—namely cdma2000 technology—besides the W-CDMA proposal it submitted to the International Telecommunication Union. The ministry's decision comes after the Office of the United States Trade Representative submitted comments to Japan Sept. 30, urging Japan to keep its standards process open. Japan sought comment July 29 on guidelines for introducing third-generation technology. Sources indicate the Clinton administration's concerns have prompted the MPT's move. Studies are set to begin in late October. Japan submitted only one standard—wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology—to the ITU, the international body in charge of setting a global 3G standard. While Japan's standards body—the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses—has actively been looking at ways to converge the W-CDMA proposal, based on the GSM platform, with the Interim Standard-95-based cdma2000 proposal, sources indicate the MPT only has been interested in W-CDMA technology, a technology endorsed by the country's largest mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo. rcrnews.com Clark