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To: Ruffian who wrote (22569)	2/5/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Pigs in a trough = 3G CDMA Your article says: ------------------------------------------------------------ "...The decade-long 3G initiative has spawned myriad groups and sub-groups at the global, regional, national and technology level. Participants in the initiative attend ITU meetings, national standards organization meetings, technology alliance meetings and now partnership project meetings. For manufacturers and operators involved with numerous standards, the demand of constant meetings can be draining. [Editor {me}: Mostly of shareholder and taxpayer funds] "I am always very, very heartened to see people working in a cooperative way and to see people interested in finding solutions to this 3G imbroglio," said William Plummer, vice president of government and industry affairs at Nokia Corp. "However, there seems to be an awful lot of different bodies doing this same work." --------------------------------------------------------------------- The "decade long 3G effort" is nonsense. 3G implies wireless Web services. In 1994, there was barely any action on the internet and $ill Gates hadn't really heard of it. Microsoft nearly missed the boat. In 1996, the first mentions of W-CDMA were made and discussed in the Frezza Forum, cmpweb-media0.web.cerf.net@^3851@.ee6b2b2 primarily as a riposte to the incipient success of IS-95 CDMA. Compuserve was in business and the internet was underway in 1992, but barely. In 1990, there was an incipient digital cellular technology, which Jacobs and co in Linkabit took part in developing up to the mid 1980s before they left to start the cdmaOne revolution. They had the forethought way back in 1990 to include internet protocol stacks in their CDMA technology! Lucky, lucky [or good thinking]. Ericy hadn't even got GSM out of the production facilities in 1990. They sure weren't thinking in terms of wireless web over mobile CDMA phones!! I'd give odds to Tero of 1000 to one that he can't come up with a half-baked semi-workable concept from Ericy for a 3G CDMA system. The pathetic Ericy patent for TDMA frequency checking of adjacent basestations to maintain frequency for a handset hard handoff don't count. Tero quotes some url with some dates in 1996 as though that proves 3G CDMA was on the go at the beginning of the decade in Finland. Sure there are science fiction dreamers for such things, but let's see him come up with an article with serious attention to 3G CDMA before 1994. Go on Tero, hit us with some convincing spam. We'd love to see it so we can rescue our foolish investment - put it here first so we are first with the news, not last. Certainly there might have been 3G efforts to leverage GSM and other TDMA standards into a common, universal, international all work on this one approach to the advantage of the incumbents, but there was no serious Ericy 3G CDMA effort until 1995 at the very earliest and more like late 1996 with 1997 the hot year when Ericy really knew they were in big, big, trouble. Mainly it has been a two year contrivance to come up with some weapon with which to bludgeon upstart Q! See how many people, meetings, committees and jamborees there are all over Klein Gilhousen's, Andrew Viterbi's, Irwin Jacob's and co's inventions like pigs in a trough! Claiming the inventions as their own. Who knows the story of the Little Red Hen who did all the work then all the barnyard animals came around to eat when the bread was ready? Well, maybe it's time to chase all the pigs away from the CDMA trough and simply get on with a cdma2000 solution with Qualcomm and a few licensees. Leave Ericy and all the others to come up with some competing standard from ITU. Meanwhile, John Koplik's media theory gathers credence with more media recommendation of Q! "The guest market monitor on NBR gave QCOM as one of his stock picks tonight. Another nice plug, on a quality business program." Mqurice