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To: Ruffian who wrote (22498)	2/5/1999 4:14:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

3G chip rate, Vodafone and a single standard "Qualcomm is unaware of any analysis that suggests the 3.84Mchip/s rate has demonstrable performance or cost advantages relative to 3.6864 {the rate for CDMA2000}, while the latter is evolutionary with an existing technology, CDMAone." Quoth they. It seems that Ericy got their compromise chip rate by taking the 666 out of the 3.68646 chip rate required by Qualcomm. No way! We need the mark of the beast on our Worldwide, unified, single omnipotent standard for WWeb communications. There were no technical studies or econometric models to demonstrate the 3.84 is any good. Forget about the silly "many standards, multimode handsets" solution which is no solution. The costs are too high. Multimode handsets are not free - the GSM royalty component alone will cost a fortune! Meanwhile, out where it matters, Ericy and other VW40 proponents used to say "let the market decide". Well, the market is their customers and their customers are Vodafone, NTT among others. This is what Vodafone said: -------------------------------------------------------------- At the announcement of the #37bn takeover by Vodafone of US group AirTouch, Chris Gent, head of Vodafone, told Electronics Times that the merged group "will put as much pressure as possible on all the interested parties to ensure we do come up with a single standard for broadband mobile telecoms. "It is a huge opportunity, and our combined clout as the biggest mobile operator around the world will be considerable." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bring on the clouting! Let the market decide! "Oops" says the hagfish as it emits a cloud of slime to escape from that idea. If you read the [in Acrobat format] report from Andersen Consulting, sss-mag.com you'll see that cdmaOne overlays of GSM are far more economic than GSM solutions where capacity is a problem. Even where coverage is the issue, cdmaOne overlays still beat GSM solutions. Wow! That means the royalties for cdmaOne were too low. I hope Q! don't similarly undersell WWeb Qualcomm technology. Are we having fun? Mqurice