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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1145)	11/5/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 34857

To Tero: Yep, maybe Symbian will be first to market (tho that remains to be seen), but look how late to market CDMA is pulling up fast on the outside in the wireless horserace. Could the new joint venture do the same, hmmmm? Chaz

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1145)	11/5/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: Mats Ericsson	Respond to of 34857

Microsoft can't write even bugfree pc-software. How many bugs there are in win98? 100 / 1000 / 10000 ? Wellcome Mr Gates - unfortunately this may boost Qcoms stock price. Ps. I just loaded Linux in my pc....

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (1145)	11/5/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, 100 million GSM prisoners after 7 years with digital cellular almost to themselves is not many. cdmaOne after only 2 years in commercialisation [excluding the questionable Hong Kong effort by Motorola] has reached nearly 20 million subscribers in the face of massive competition from the well advanced GSM world which enjoyed a huge first to market advantage. You wondered about dovetailing with the existing global standard. There is no existing global wireless standard suitable for data in the way QM is planning it. The nearest thing to it is cdma2000. Microsoft has the financial resources to promote that standard VERY quickly. I take trade mags with a big pinch of salt. They said Windows 95 and Windows 98 would be duds too. Well, I bought Windows 95 on the first day it was available before Europeans had even gone to bed the day before. They are great! You got the wrong guy! I've been a Microsoft and $ill Gates fan for decades [well, since the early 1980s]. qdog will have had many foamings at the mouth, apoplectic fits, snarlings and that is consistent with his previous attitude. If you read back over the past couple of years of posts, you'll see I'm consistently a defender of Microsoft. While threatening to relegate them to second rank status as QUALCOMM became as large as Microsoft, Intel and Compaq combined. With such a threat looming, it was not surprising that Microsoft is buying their way in. That's okay, it will help the rate of CDMA development by The Q! Heck, for enough money, I'd even let L M Ericsson inside the tent - as long as they could maintain a semblance of civilized habits. I agree that there has been wishful thinking by QUALCOMM on delivery times. 2 years delay in getting cdmaOne commercial, delays in getting the Q-phone out. Good things take time. Hopefully not too much of it. Maurice