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To: Perry LaForge who wrote (20067)	12/19/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Perry, China is an interesting one. Surely a lot of this is to do with waiting until 3G is sorted out. Also the PLA ownership. Plus the joint venture stuff and 'socialism with a Chinese character' as Jiang Zemin was sternly telling the passive, straight backed crowd in the Great Hall of the People yesterdy. Once those little details are sorted out, China must go with CDMA in general and cdmaOne in particular with an upgrade path to "WWeb" [the latest 3G spec after cdma2000, 3G-W-CDMA-VW-SETI, VW40, W3G]. Can you elaborate on China for us? That's a biggie. Sure, GSM will be expanded as that is still economic. But new and major networks? TIA [meaning thanks in advance in this context] "WWeb" being "WirelessWeb" Mqurice PS: All well here thanks. As far as I know anyway.

To: Perry LaForge who wrote (20067)	12/19/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Perry: Up until I reread the Bell Atlantic decision to implement CDMA2000, I thought BAM was simply committing to 1xRTT. After rereading your posts and several CDG reports, the light became much brighter. 1) cdma2000 is more than a technical specification to rebut WCDMA. 2) cdma2000 has already signed up at least 1 customer - BAM. 3) cdma2000 runs at the existing chip speed in a 5 MHz channel - 3.68 Mcps. 4) 3G CDMA will be deployed in the US in 1999. Not just the 2.5 G offered by 1xRTT. 5) WCDMA does not work at the chip speed they initially designed. The ERICY claim that higher is better is a falsity. 6) 9 US carriers sent a letter to Congress urging convergence to a single chip rate that would protect their investment. 7) Asia & Europe carriers just signalled they are willing to continue path to convergence. They are beginning to acknowledge the 4 pts that you mentioned. All of these observations are very simple. However, I think it helps to put them together in a list to see where everything stands. Why isn't there any product information on cdma2000 from any of the CDMA vendors? What about 1xRTT? Actually, QCOM has some information on GSM CDMA overlay. I believe that the reason WCDMA has been received by Asian & European carriers is that they can go to the Web Page for ERICY and see the information on WCDMA. As you mentioned, they don't know it is still a spec. I hope that when I look at QCOM's Web Page under infrastructure products next year, I will see a portfolio of different CDMA techniques - IS 95B, 1XRTT, CDMA GSM overlay, CDMA2000. Thanks for all of your support. Regards, Keith