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To: bananawind who wrote (19853)	12/16/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Ericsson Says, "Its A Coincidence"> Advertise on Total Telecom Ericsson Moves to End 3G Deadlock By Sheridan Nye at CommunicationsWeek International 15 December 1998 The long-running stalemate over a single global standard for third-generation mobile appears to have been broken, with a dramatic reversal of direction by L.M. Ericsson AB. The dispute over rival 3G proposals had become a nose-to-nose stand-off between Ericsson and Qualcomm Inc. Both companies withheld Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to allegedly "essential" aspects of rival air-interface technologies, cdma2000 and Wideband-CDMA, on condition that the International Telecommunication Union support their conflicting visions for IMT-2000, the ITU's proposed global family of 3G standards. While the vendors dug in, they came under increasing pressure from the industry and the ITU to find a compromise. Now Ericsson appears to have given way, having relinquished its demand that the two spread-spectrum technologies should develop separately. "We can't keep on with this deadlock," said Eric Osterberg, communications director, Ericsson Mobile Systems. "We have to live with a family of standards, we don't need any more delays. This could be a way forward to get these systems aligned." If the two vendors agree to pool their technologies and IPRs, the world could see the first dual-mode handsets for 3G global roaming by 2001, Ericsson said. The substance of Ericsson's offer is to harmonize W-CDMA and cdma2000 technologies. Crucially, it has conceded a lower chip rate, from 4.096 megahertz to 3.84 MHz. This effectively reduces the specified frequency spread to within the smaller spectrum blocks allocated to 3G in the United States. It also paves the way for backwards compatibility with the core networks for the world's two dominant 2G standards, GSM and cdmaOne, the air-interface standard licensed by Qualcomm. If an agreement is reached, the deal could avert a looming trade war and would allow Qualcomm to target the European market in force for the first time. U.S. trade officials had complained that the European Union, through its support for the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) proposal based on W-CDMA, sought to shut U.S. vendors out of Europe. This, they claimed, would be a repeat of tactics the EU used when it mandated support for GSM against the cdma alternative proposed by the United States. As CWI went to press, San Diego, California-based Qualcomm welcomed the "positive development." But it declined to comment on whether it would release its IPRs, pending clarification on other outstanding technical differences, such as base station synchronization. Osterberg denied that Ericsson's decision amounted to a climb-down. He also denied it came in response to a recent ITU policy statement that reaffirmed its consensus view that 3G should be based on a single global standard, supporting global roaming. "Nothing has changed," said Osterberg. "This looks like a quick reaction [to the ITU], but it's a coincidence. We've been working on this for some time." Meanwhile, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute has formed the 3G Partnership Project, a new joint body with standards groups from Asia and the United States to harmonize various 3G proposals with UTRA.

To: bananawind who wrote (19853)	12/16/1998 12:11:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Brazil News> quote.bloomberg.com

To: bananawind who wrote (19853)	12/16/1998 1:51:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Florid One, while it is true that my academic schedule sometimes prevents me staying as closely attuned to industry developments as I would prefer (orthogonal wave theory is some pretty meaty stuff if you catch my scent), I find it astonishing that Sprint SMS has found its way to an area in such a notoriously primitive state of technological development. Is it not true that in Southeast Florida the Sprint service is referred to as "Short Message, Long Delivery Time" or SMLDT as we technicians phrase it? :-) SM