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To: Ruffian who wrote (19143)	12/4/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

So these economists think multiple standards would be better? Okay, QUALCOMM could sell a licence for VW-40 at 20% and let them go to it. I'd be happy with that arrangement. Or do the economists think it better that QUALCOMM just give their property away at some price the economists think better? And why do the economists think that VW-40 should get any air time at all? They must have analyzed the photon orthogonality and decided that both are equally good. They should understand that property is owned by individuals and if those owners don't want to sell a licence, then that is up to the property owners. ------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Farrell, FCC chief economist between 1996 and 1997 and now professor of economics at the University of California-Berkeley, and Michael Topper, senior manager of Cornerstone Research, authored an economic white paper on 3G standards, which the GSM Alliance released last week. The authors conclude that the benefits of multiple standards will be achieved best by permitting both wideband code division multiple access technology and cdma2000 to compete with time division multiple access. -------------------------------------------------------------- "Permitting"???!! What do they mean by that? Surely they support the idea of spectrum being sold to somebody and they can do what they like with it. No, they see "permitting" as the way to manage who does what. And who do they suggest does the "permitting"? Oh well, I guess the GSM Alliance wasn't looking for rationality or real economics. Sack the standards bodies - leave it to property owners to negotiate whatever 'standards' they feel like creating. The oil industry had 'standards' bodies and absurd jamborees costing a fortune they were too. Europe now has 'standards' committees managing beer head, cucumber bend, and I suppose now banana bend and sugar content. It seems that VW-40 is dead in the water with the chip rate problems interacting with the 5MHz bandwidths. The lower chip rate of cdma2000 results in maximum capacity. Which will be important in image rich 3G systems with huge bandwidth demand and hence high per minute costs. ---------------------------------------------------------------- According to the CDG's footnote, T1P1 showed that "even with a difficult-to-realize, complex filter, the 4.096 Mbps rate signal does not meet the FCC out-of-band emission requirement for a 5 MHz deployment." Techniques suggested for mitigating these effects would themselves offset some of the capacity advantages offered by the larger chip rate, the CDG said. For CDMA operators, incremental deployment of 3G services via cdma2000 upgrades would in fact yield greater overall capacity, it said. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mqurice