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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17583)	11/3/1998 1:22:00 PM
From: SKIP PAUL	Respond to of 152472

Tero please dont make statements you cannot support with facts and dont resort to distortions and lies if you want people to even bother to read your posts.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17583)	11/3/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Gregg Powers	Respond to of 152472

Tero: Your hyperbole is getting painful. MOT got a $100mm handset order, which works out to something like 200,000 phones...or about two weeks of Korean subscriber growth. Hardly the kind of sea change that portends an end of all things Qualcomm. Moreover, can you speak to the terms that MOT extended the Koreans in order to get this marketshare? Of course not...that would require facts rather than hyperbole. As for the "megabuck" lawsuit. This issue with ETRI is a semantic debate over what class of phone is included in a royalty-sharing arrangement that QC has with the Korean government. The last I checked, the total nominal claim was less than $15mm. It does get tiresome refuting biased melodrama...does fact checking violate some European interpersonal convention? Best regards, Gregg

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17583)	11/3/1998 2:02:00 PM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

>>The Koreans hate Qualcomm and are suing them for megabucks<< I'm beginning to understand.... you know little to nothing regarding how businesses are really run. Companies sue other companies to resolve compensatory issues often. It doesn't mean they "hate" them. $15mm is nothing. Please ask someone to let you out of the chem lab, the fumes have gotten to you. Jim

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17583)	11/3/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: Asterisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Tero: You missed entirely. What do you know about the Palm Pilot operating system and more importantly the pdQ? Let me assure you that I know a lot more. This is not meant as some kind of challange to a pissing contest but you REALLY need to check your facts before you say anything. The Nokia 9000 on its published specs is absolutely no match for the pdQ as far as weight, and screen interface. IMHO the 9000 is a joke for interface when compared to the pdQ. You have me so befuddled with your hyperbole and BS that I really cannot respond intelligently so I won't. I have spoon fed you facts, data, and conclusions based on science. All you give in return is press releases and FUD. Fine, I have carried on this monologue long enough. I wish you well in your endeavors and hope to someday meet you (really). I think that you are odviously a passionate person, but in this case you have channeled your passions into something that is indefensable with your current level of knowledge. It is odvious that you are educated and educated well, may I suggest that before you come back in January you take some kind of basic electronic communications course (including info on GSM and CDMA)? I think that some of your arguements have some merit but without data and specifics you have no chance. Ta Ta.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (17583)	11/3/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

Tero, Perhaps your german is better.... In Berlin last month, at the IEEE wireless convention, there was NOTHING about a 58 GHZ GSM system. I would be very surprised if there was a MOBILE 58 GHZ system out there. Lots of things stop it at that frequency...rain, dew, frost, line of site things... 58 GHZ does NOT go around corners like 1.9 GHz does. Nokia does have WAND, which is at 5 GHz, but this is limited to short ranges and not for mobility at all. If your saying that they use the 58 GHz to replace the backhaul, then this is nothing new, as it has been done for awhile, but usually involves high power, large fixed antennas, line of site, etc... If you happen to have real technical specs or a pointer to a place where I can read about the systems design, could you post it? If there is a way to do mobility at 58 GHz, then alot of people have missed something for a long time. Please not from a Marketing type......