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To: Clarksterh who wrote (16671)	10/16/1998 5:57:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

On the Ericsson thread there is a Reuters story from Stockholm which reports that Ericy will not permit the Q to use any of its IPRs necessary for either CDMA2000 or WCDMA unless the Q permits Ericy to use the Q's IPRs for WCDMA. Assume this is just more of the same from Ericy, but curious if any of the experts here think the CDMA2000 will require any Ericy IPRs or is it likely the Q can proceed with its upgrade through various flavors of IS - 95 to arrive at CDMA2000 without any need for Ericy IPRs at all?

To: Clarksterh who wrote (16671)	10/17/1998 6:24:00 PM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Clark, There's been a lot of discussion about the advantages one side or the other would have if either WCDMA or a converged standard won out.Icurious whether you think it might actually be possible to compromise in such a way that both sides are "winners", or is this a technological impossibility? Do spectrum and chiprate differences in GSM and CDMAone make a simple migration impede such an outcome. It's been suggested in the past that some of the technical details such as pilot tones and adaptive array antennaes were inserted into Wcdma in order to get around Q patents. This type of disagreement seems less intractable than the chip rate frequency questions. Is this correct?Do there have to be "winners" and losers"? Thanks for your insight..Dvae