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Technology Stocks : Ericsson overlook? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gdichaz who wrote (2548)	1/16/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: P2V	Respond to of 5390

gdichaz, Re Just wish Ericsson management would work out a practical relationship to sell CDMA too. Nokia has, why can't Ericsson? I am Ill prepared to answer that one; except that It's apparent that the animosity between the two companies will keep that from happening until the flavor of the next generation CDMA system has been resolved. It appears that Qualcomm surprised a lot of people, by creating a viable cdma product in the RF world. ( But I do wish people would also realize that the US Government, not Qualcomm, actually invented the original technology) However, the TDMA folks appear also to be turning a few heads, by squeazing more out of this less efficient (antique ?) technology. One practical example of this : My #1 Son proudly displayed his Nokia 9000i Communicator, on the day after Thanksgiving Day. (We were a day late) While at that gathering, he connected to his home office file server, via the internet, to check his mail, some stock quotes; and possibly to impress his old man. I asked him why he had not purchased a CDMA unit (you know, better voice quality, etc.) His response was, that this type of service just was not available in a CDMA unit; "It has not yet lived up to It's promises". Only a fool would NOT believe that CDMA is the future, but even Nokia is not really behind the current generation of that technology. I would not expect them to do much more than manufacture a line of CDMA phones. Better days should be ahead, and hopefully both parties will realize that being hard headed will not hasten those days. BTW I'm not averse to an investment in Qcom, but am somewhat fearful about entering, before their earnings announcement. Best, Mardy.