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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (17448)	10/30/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

AUSTRALIA/ OZPHONE ANNOUNCES CDMA LAUNCH PLANS Date: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 Source: TELENEWS ASIA NEWSLETTER TELENEWS ASIA NEWSLETTER via NewsEdge Corporation : Meanwhile, Qualcomm's Australian subsidiary Ozphone has announced plans to launch its CDMA network for voice, eftpos, corporate data, Internet access and telemetry "in the second half of 1999". Ozphone acquired eight 5 MHz blocks of spectrum in the 800 MHz band in the May spectrum auction, paying just under $A10 million to gain access to markets in Brisbane, Perth and south western WA, Cairns, Mackay, Maryborough, Grafton and Tasmania. Ozphone is part of Leap Wireless International, a spin off of Qualcomm's "development stage businesses". Leap Wireless is also building CDMA networks in Mexico, Chile, Russia and the US. Qualcomm says there will be a market for an estimated four to five million new customers for digital mobile telephony in Australia, and says service will be the key to profitability. Much of the growth in cellular telephone numbers has, however, been tipped to come from units for monitoring and control of unattended systems such as vending machines. Telstra is currently trialling CDMA as a replacement for the AMPS network, scheduled to shut down on 31 December 1999. If successful, the roll out would be starting at about the same time Ozphone rolls out its network. Qualcomm will be the turnkey supplier of infrastructure equipment, deployment services, wireless local loop telephones and portable phones for the Ozphone network. The system will use Qualcomm's scalable QCell 800 MHz base stations and QCore switch and base station controller products. Copyright(C) 1998 TELENEWS ASIA NEWSLETTER <<TELENEWS ASIA NEWSLETTER -- 10-22-98>> [Feedback] [Index] [Search] [Customize] [Individual, Inc.] [Main] [Up] [< Prev Story] [Next Story >] [Calendar] ******************** Just for you Maurice....

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (17448)	10/30/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

If someone is really taking a wireless handset to Antarctica, don't semiconductor chips have an "operating range" of temperatures that would make things difficult in the polar regions ? Jon.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (17448)	10/31/1998 4:04:00 AM
From: Raymond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

I really don't see the logic of some messages on this thread.If this WCDMA is such a piece of shit.How come QCOM refuses to licence it's IPR:s to them.It should be perfect.Nokia Ericsson and the rest is working on something that is inferior.That's leaves the worldmarket open for LMNQS.The only thing they have to do is adapting IS-95 to the GSM core network and then they can sell how much they want.If the GSM operators have 2 3g networks with one of them so obviously superior as everybody can see here then no way WCDMA will sell a single network.Or am I misssing something?/R