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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (21625)	1/19/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

"The solution is pretty obvious: allow the next generation to have a single world standard," he says. "The consumer has been lost in the current debate. We will put as much pressure as we can on the ITU to seize this wonderful opportunity to harmonize technological standards." So why would he want a chip rate such that his cmdaOne network is at a disadvantage? He doesn't. Neither do consumers benefit by having to buy all new cdmaOne networks. GSM consumers and operators have to because their handsets won't work anyway and neither will their basestations. So he is saying that they want a 3G upgrade and they want it now! L M Ericsson said they'd listen to their customers. Well, they better put their amygdala back in a dark cupboard and start getting with the program. Sure they will suffer physical, emotional and financial damage, but they are stuck with that anyway. They won't want to be the taste sensation at a hagfish barbecue which is all they'll be the way they are going. I wonder if Vodafone analysts 'get it' yet. This part was almost an outright threat! "Commenting on the dispute, Mr. Ginn of AirTouch notes that it is this sort of squabbling that Vodafone AirTouch hopes to resolve and pledges the new company will lobby hard to prevent the disagreement from blocking creation of a global mobile-phone standard." I wonder if L M Ericsson can understand that threat. They won't be pulling out cdmaOne. They MIGHT pull out GSM and go straight to cdmaOne. That is because they HAVE TO HAVE CDMA by QUALCOMM to produce WWeb. Now I'm starting to shout! Vodafone can threaten all they like but the USA isn't in the business of extinguishing intellectual property rights just yet, so the threat is clearly directed at L M Ericsson to pay up and get with it. Mquarkce