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To: Ruffian who wrote (23099)	2/19/1999 3:16:00 PM
From: Graham C.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Michael, can you help me on a technical point ... Are square acres easier or more difficult to cover than other shapes of acres ? ( Sorry, couldn't resist ! It's late here, and the wine is beginning to talk.) (PS. who the hell am I ? Just a foreigner holding some Qcom at 64-and-a-bit, waiting for it to double. Hello to everyone. )

To: Ruffian who wrote (23099)	2/19/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Tero's gradual religious conversion What feels like an insane conversation with Tero as to when Nokia will decide they want to produce a good cdmaOne handset with 3146 melodies. Engineer, good explanation on what the ASICs do and why the things Tero mentioned were irrelevant to whether the phone actually allows good quality talking, which some subscribers are after. For some reason, Nokia wants to keep their cdmaOne handsets not as successful as their GSM efforts. I subscribe to the 'marketing backfill' theory. The conversation seems insane because only a couple of years ago, Tero was aligned with the 'IS-95 will never get anywhere' crowd. Now he is arguing over 4 lines or 5 on one particular model of handset as being the defining moment in the argument. Barely a year ago [and maybe still], he thought that GSM ruled the waves and CDMA by Qualcomm would never catch up even though nearly everyone is aiming at Qualcomm's technology for 3G. On product differentiation, to coin a phrase, having a common air interface won't make handsets all the same. That's a bit like saying that all cars use gasoline, so that's the end of any differences. Actually, some use diesel, some methanol and maybe even a few hydrogen. But meanwhile there is plenty else to be going on with in the design of cars and handsets to suit the individuals who will buy them. Bigger doesn't mean victory in the handset realm. Humans are individuals with individual needs and some network operator with an effective price plan, perfect coverage of individual needs [maybe of a smallish town with Globalstar backup] will retain customers in the face of the vast roaming advantage of Vodafone. Handsets will be designed in a kaleidoscope of ways - diver models, EarCell [TM] models as stereophonic hearing aid replacements, wristwatch types, big Texan ones with gunsights and small bore built in, telescopic digital camera inclusive 'paparazzi model' with WWeb link with Eudoracoin [TM] pay per view, and so on. On chip design, Motorola is using Q! chips via Pantech and WWeb is going to be harder to make sing in tune than cdmaOne so Ericy and co don't have a show without Q! technology. Since Ericy has withdrawn their offer of a compromise chip rate, it seems Q! in light of the huge difficulty of others in producing effective ASICs and software should withdraw all previous royalty offers to Ericy for 3G and ramp them up to 20% of wholesale price. A bargain when one looks at the market, the importance of time to market, the cost of developing alternatives to Q! technology, the battering Ericy is going to take as cdma2000 rolls out across Europe with WWeb stepping past high-priced twisted pair, toll, internet and cellular services in Europe. Life's a giggle, Oh yes, and the feint in the direction of B-CDMA by Interdigital by Siemens as part of the 'look out Q! there is something else on the go' strategy has been cancelled as a joke. Bad luck Jim [Lurgio]. Mqurice [Comment on 'square acres' withdrawn since Graham beat me to it though perhaps they do have square acres out there. It is pretty flat and dealing with weird-shaped acres would be tricky with rows of combine harvesters. In the cellular world, they'd prefer hexagonal acres.