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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (2781)	2/12/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 5390

The chip rate is a red herring and nothing to do with the what Qualcomm really wants, isn't it? Red herring? Is that a Northern European kind of joke? W-CDMA purposefully uses a different chip rate, since proven to be no more, and likely less, spectrally efficient than QCOMs proposed chip rate. The purpose being to make current IS-95 customers just as handicapped as GSM service providers. ERICY would like everyone to have to buy all new systems for 3G. They do not want current IS-95 customers to have a simple, backwards compatible upgrade to 3G, one which can utilize current handsets and infrastructure. If QCOM's chip rate is used(which it will be), why should anyone buy GSM now? My sources indicate that the ITU is continuing to look at harmonizing the proposals, but not so indepth to actually invoke Qcom IPRs. So, you are saying they will use some kind of TDMA then? The flavors of CDMA that are proposed for 3G all invoke QCOM IPRs. If they didn't, why would there be such a fuss? If you know the chip rate was only one issue and then the next would be the channel structure...where does it stop...cdma2000? Don't think so. Does it stop at W-CDMA? Don't think so.