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To: Sawtooth who wrote (19759)	12/15/1998 9:27:00 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Respond to of 152472

Just a net quote, showing the start of a split in the Nordic wall: (from Phillips telecom site: telecomweb.com A register site, Commenting on Ericsson chip rate 'comprimise': <<Some other industry observers were also confused by the proposal. Nortel Networks [NT] Vice President of Strategic Market Relations Peter MacLaren said Nortel actually supports 3.84 mcps as a better chip rate for W-CDMA than 4.096 mcps. The 4.096 mcps rate, "is a difficult chip rate to implement in a 5 MHz channel," MacLaren said. However, he added, Nortel is "somewhat mystified by the Ericsson proposal as offering a compromise. I would tend to agree with the cdmaOne community that moving from 4.096 to 3.84, or any other number if it's not 3.68, really does nothing for cdma2000." The 3.84 proposal had been raised six months ago, he noted, and was "basically dismissed for the same reasons, so why Ericsson is making it again in this context just mystifies us." If a consensus forms around 3.84, MacLaren said, Nortel will "probably end up being supportive...but it doesn't do anything for the agendas Ericsson claims it does." >> Also Phillps had a chart of providers in the US - divided up into pops and type. CDMA beat both TDMA and GSM, 2 to 1 (roughly 600 mill CDMA) Things are darkest before the dawn.... Jeff Vayda