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To: Valueman who wrote (23014)	2/18/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Valueman	Respond to of 152472

Not huge, but we'll take it! Thursday February 18, 11:00 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Northern Telecom Limited PVT Wireless LP to Build cdmaOne 1900 MHz Network in New Mexico Using Nortel Networks' Switching, Cell Site Equipment DALLAS, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ - PVT Wireless LP, a limited partnership between Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative and Poka Lambro Telecommunications, has selected Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT/TSE: NTL) to build a cdmaOne (IS-95 CDMA) 1900 MHz network in the Carlsbad and Roswell, New Mexico areas. Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative currently uses the DMS-100 switch from Nortel Networks to provide wireline telephone service to rural desert and mountain regions in New Mexico. The switch will be upgraded to the Nortel Networks' DMS-100 Wireless switch and PVT Wireless Limited Partnership will use the enhanced switch to handle wireless traffic in the Carlsbad and Roswell areas. ''Our offering will provide the people of New Mexico with the comprehensive telecommunication services and features they desire,'' said Lynn Gunwall, vice-president, subsidiary operations, Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative. ''PVT Wireless LP's approach to the marketplace is unique and furnishes us with a number of opportunities to serve the communities we know well.'' The DMS-100 Wireless switch elegantly integrates wireless and wireline services, providing a number of features that can potentially increase an operator's revenue. The switch supports simultaneous and sequential ringing at multiple phones and extends key Centrex features such as corporate dialing plans to wireless phones allowing PVT to offer a unique set of features. Operators can also benefit since switching costs are spread between wireless and wireline applications, without the addition of costly platforms, creating operational savings. Penasco Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. serves desert and mountain areas in New Mexico covering more than 4,000 square miles. The company's success is based upon the independent spirit and quality of its directors, management and employee team. Poka Lambro provides competitive, total telecommunications solutions for transporting and delivering customized information to enhance the quality of life, economic capabilities and educational opportunities for its members, customers and employees.

To: Valueman who wrote (23014)	2/18/1999 11:22:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Tero somehow forgot to post this gem over here..:-) Message 7892371 I think the ongoing stream of W-CDMA news is very interesting. Qualcomm finished the GSM-CDMA overlay experiment in England over a year ago - and I haven't heard of any follow-ups after that. But W-CDMA is gaining new trial network deals every month. Lucent, Nortel and Motorola are actually spending money and engineering talent on W-CDMA. Ericsson and Nokia are working exclusively on W-CDMA. The Koreans are saying they are interested in W-CDMA - even if it's not compatible with the IS-95 networks in Korea. You can't get much more bullish than that. Major Japanese companies are investing in W-CDMA. NTT-Docomo's annual W-CDMA investment is topping 7 billion dollars. The fact that European mobile telecom giants are focusing on W-CDMA is not news - but the way US companies are showing increasing commitment is. So is the surprisingly positive comments made by the Korean telecom companies. Real money is being spent, real investments are being made. That's not just usual PR BS. That looks like momentum. My question is: where is cdma2000? W-CDMA networks are springing up in Japan, China, Italy, Germany, England, Finland and Sweden. Nokia has performed the first W-CDMA phone connected to public telecom networks - as opposed to trial calls only made within a trial network. What is the position of cdma2000 as a third generation standards when the three biggest North American mobile telecom companies are more and more tied to W-CDMA? It looks like the balance of power is shifting decisively in favor of W-CDMA. The patent issues are still unresolved, but the pressure to come up with a solution is mounting daily. Who has the upper hand in the sense that it has been able to involve more companies and bigger investments in the solution it favors? Everyone can just look at the news releases of last six months and draw the conclusions. Tero

To: Valueman who wrote (23014)	2/18/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: GO*QCOM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

IF......Wall Street is concentrating on the IF word.No one knows what a jury will do if it comes down to a trial.The stakes are huge for both companies to settle this and motivation for a swede/calif or as some may view it an ice/surf partnership.The surf always wins over ice is the way I see it.The concerns of investors are hinged on the unknown and the lack of knowledge, when it comes to QUALCOMM's CDMA patent stronghold.The erroneous and deceptive methods of ice leave us all a little uneasy as we proceed toward a hearing.These are really interesting times we are involved in and some of us have been waiting for a thaw a long time.Intresting also is as all this is going on we haven't heard any thing from the man ....Gregg..for some time.

To: Valueman who wrote (23014)	2/18/1999 12:30:00 PM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Vman, from the article: But their long-simmering squabble also involves patents over a technology used today that Qualcomm claims to have pioneered in the U.S. Ericsson's patent-infringement suit against Qualcomm will reach a critical stage in Marshall, Texas, on Monday. There, the district court is set to hold a pretrial hearing. A jury trial is scheduled to start April 6. Note that the pre-trial hearing is set for this Monday. It is not unheard of for a judge to say "What a load of bull, get out of my courtroom." Until now, Eric has been allowed to stop the process by merely saying the Q was infringing. (A very poor position held by the ITU, they should require the process to be settled in court before they take a position, lord knows there has been enough time.) The rubber hits the road on Monday. They have to put up or shut up. They should have enough lawyer horse power to prevent them from being laughed out of the courtroom, but stranger things have happened. Actually looking forward to a Monday for a change... Jeff Vayda

To: Valueman who wrote (23014)	2/18/1999 7:25:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

3G agreement Yawn! "If a compromise were to happen between now and April, it would be an all-inclusive agreement,'' said Qualcomm President Richard Sulpizio. ''It would solve this lawsuit as well as get harmonization on the (third-generation) standard." Somehow that just sits there looking at me on the screen. Naively perhaps, I'd assumed that would be the case and expected such a decision in December, so I'm not too excited at all and think I'll go and have a nice cup of Japanese Green Tea. Tero going on about all the VW40 trials is amusing. Same old Tero. All the trials, demonstrations and hoo-hah in the world are irrelevant without the use of the technology, which Ericy and the gang don't have. He seems to ignore the progress being made by cdma2000 and HDR [High Data Rate]. He's ignoring standby time and talk time now. In fact it's about time he updated us with the competitive advantage of GSM now and how cdmaOne, cdma2000 and WWeb don't have a chance. It was a handset advantage, but that advantage is nearly gone. Heck, Nokia is even aiming to produce a cdmaOne handset which is better than inadequate, as part of some perverse marketing strategy conflicting with Tero's "They only want to make rotten cdmaOne handsets" marketing theory. Mqurice PS: On oil, I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Saudi and other big oil producers' discussions. They can double production easily, at a production cost of less than $1 per barrel, which will make West Texas Intermediate, North Sea and Alaskan Oil pretty expensive not to mention uneconomic. By doubling production, they'd boost their market share heaps, cut the price to $6 per barrel and put a lot of competitors out of business. Already there are a lot of parked drilling rigs in the USA! But more need to be parked. Oil is still cheap and Saudi Arabia is running out of money and they have billions of barrels of oil rotting in the ground. They'll have to pump or go broke, unless the USA stops those evil Iranians from exporting oil. It must be time for some weapons of mass destruction inspections in Iran. They could stop the Russians exporting too if the Russians support Milosevic in Kosovo or fail to agree with USA rules on selling components of weapons of mass destruction to Iran in contravention of the UN rule number 314159 which says that the price of oil shall not fall below $10 per barrel or a lot of friends in high places will be looking really sad. Meanwhile, silly sellers of stocks think that it's bad for oil to be cheap. The business sections of newsmedia talk about cheap oil as being a bad thing. It's all doom and gloom. Talk about Alice in Wonderland. Cheap oil is GOOD chaps. Cheap air is good. Cheap water is good! We want lots and lots of those lovely things available anytime we want to turn on the tap.