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To: JGoren who wrote (23405)	2/25/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Respond to of 152472

OT: Maybe this is the start of Eric giving up on WCDMA: (Thanks Phiilips Telecom) Ericsson To Open Sixth Experimental Facility For 3G Technologies L.M Ericsson AB [ERICY] has targeted a June date to open the latest of its experimental facilities for developing third-generation (3G) wireless technologies. But unlike its predecessors, the facility to be located at Ericsson's R&D center in Montreal will concentrate on "EDGE" technology, the abbreviation for "enhanced data rates for GSM evolution." Ericsson's other 3G-oriented facilities - in Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom - focus on wideband CDMA technology. EDGE is envisioned as the high-speed data migration path for TDMA - just as general packet radio services technology is for GSM - toward the UWC-136 radio interface for 3G. Ericsson said yesterday (2/24) that the Montreal demonstration facility will be connected to a similar EDGE project in Texas, as well as Ericsson's "Cyberlabs" in New York and Silicon Valley, California. In this way, the company said that it will be able to create a "networked application-sharing environment" that will make use of technologies related to the Internet protocol (IP). "We're developing next-generation software for future TDMA networks, to handle voice, IP and other datacom services," said Mark Henderson, a general manager in Ericsson's Canadian subsidiary. EDGE-enabled applications to be evaluated at 3G speeds of up to 384 Kbps will include videoconferencing, telemedicine, and telebanking and electronic commerce. The facility also will evaluate other 3G technologies with anticipated data speeds beyond 2 Mbps, Ericsson said. (Kathy Egan, Ericsson, 212/685-4030, ericsson.com.)