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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (18491)	11/18/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Respond to of 152472

Take it easy on us.. We're a simple bunch of naive underachievers over here....

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (18491)	11/18/1998 11:32:00 AM
From: Gregg Powers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Mika, you totally failed (to make a valid point that is). Please delineate is clear and concise terms the difference between IS-95C, HDR and cdma2000. QC is providing both an economic upgrade path to existing IS-95 operators AND a state-of-the art 3G solution called cdma2000. BANM has just offered proof-of-concept validation of the latter by its deployment announcement. My comment about DoCoMo's size was deliberately sarcastic; I recognize that English is probably not your first language, so I apologize for your consternation. My point was that a very large and successful wireless operator, i.e. DoCoMo, has now placed itself at an important time-to-market disadvantage by lining up behind the wrong standard and the wrong vendor. I was wondering, aloud, what they intend to do about it. TDMA-based GSM may be adding 5mm subscribers a month, but ERICY is fighting awfully hard for the privilege of migrating these people to direct sequence spread spectrum, i.e. CDMA. Why? What's so wrong with TDMA-based GSM that ERICY needs to move to W-CDMA in the first place? How come you never answer this question??? You are dreaming, or otherwise far removed from the patent litigation, if you believe that ERICY can estop cdmaOne with its current patent claims. If this were even a remote possibility, Ericy would have gone for a preliminary injunction similar to Motorola's ploy with the Q phone. More hyperbole. Since you claim to be standing on issues, please address the question that your brother-in-arms, i.e. Tero, has steadfastly ignored. Please explain, in technical detail, exactly why W-CDMA offers GSM operators a superior upgrade alternative to QC's proposed converged standard? Please explain why Ericsson is trying so hard to balkanize cdmaOne without providing its constituency any bona fide benefit? Please assume that Tero's "because Ericsson says so" response is insufficient. Best regards, Gregg