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To: djane who wrote (3562)	3/23/1999 10:41:00 AM
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What's wrong with G* again? Down very heavily! 15 3/8 now, anyone know where is the bottom?

To: djane who wrote (3562)	3/23/1999 12:45:00 PM
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China Tipped To Open A Line To U.S. Telecom Firms (via qcom thread) Tuesday March 23 3:53 AM ET By Matt Pottinger BEIJING (Reuters) - China appears ready to bow to strong U.S. trade pressure and embrace a cellular telecommunications standard worth billions of dollars to U.S. companies such as Motorola and Lucent Technologies. Foreign equipment manufacturers said Tuesday that Chinese companies had expressed strong and sudden interest in buying CDMA networks -- a leading U.S. standard. CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is limited to trials in four cities, while the rest of China operates on the European GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard. Industry analysts said an announcement on CDMA could come next month during Premier Zhu Rongji's visit to the United States. Zhu is thought to back CDMA as part of his efforts to spur competition in an industry dominated by state-owned China Telecom. A concession to U.S. telecommunications firms could help China's bid to join the World Trade Organization, but Beijing has so far made no public comment on the issue. ''In the last several days we've had a flurry of activity'' on possible bids, said a Beijing-based executive at one of the foreign companies. ''They're not real tenders yet, but inquiries from our customers,'' he said. Other firms also reported approaches from customers allied with China Unicom, a tiny state-owned rival to China Telecom. Equipment manufacturers which stand to benefit include U.S.-based Lucent Technologies and Motorola, Canada's Nortel and South Korea's Samsung. It would also be a windfall for San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc (Nasdaq:QCOM - news), which developed CDMA technology and stands to earn high royalties on equipment and handsets. Motorola has seen its once dominant share of the Chinese mobile market eroded by competition from European rivals, including Ericsson and Nokia. A Chinese move to CDMA could help revive its fortunes in the world's fastest-growing telecommunications market. In 1997 Beijing offered foreign vendors CDMA trials in Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Guangzhou in partnership with local venture Great Wall. But approval for expansion into other cities and sales to other Chinese customers have remained elusive. Foreign executives said interest in CDMA intensified this month after China Unicom submitted a plan to the State Council, or cabinet, to help it compete with China Telecom. The plan calls for two million CDMA subscribers this year, 10 million next year and 40 million in five years. It is thought to have received Zhu's blessing, according to foreign industry executives who cite Chinese official sources. One foreign executive estimated total market sales of more than $16 billion if Unicom were to realize its five-year goal. The Ministry of Information Industries, China Unicom and Great Wall declined to comment on the issue. ''No official is willing to confirm it. But personally I believe it is coming,'' said an executive with a foreign company. ''If there's going to be any announcement, it will be during Zhu Rongji's visit to the U.S.,'' said another. Jay Hu, director of the U.S. Information Technology Office, which represents U.S. telecom firms in Beijing, played down a link between CDMA and China's 13-year quest to join the WTO. ''I don't think there's a strong linkage between CDMA and the WTO, but rather CDMA is linked to the trade deficit,'' he said. Last year, China's trade surplus with the United States was $57 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Copyright © 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

To: djane who wrote (3562)	3/23/1999 12:47:00 PM
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United States Patent Office Reaffirms the Validity of Important QUALCOMM CDMA Patent Tuesday March 23, 7:31 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: QUALCOMM Incorporated SAN DIEGO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - news) today announced that the validity of one of its key Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) patents has been reaffirmed. QUALCOMM has received notice that the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue a Reexamination Certificate confirming the patentability of all 49 claims of U.S. Patent 5,103,459 with minor amendments and allowing 19 additional claims. The patent, which was issued in April 1992, had been the subject of two requests for reexamination filed by anonymous requestors in 1996 and 1997. The requests for reexamination alleged that prior publications not originally considered by the Patent Office rendered the patent invalid. In total, more than 80 additional references were submitted to the Patent Office during the reexamination proceedings by the requestors and QUALCOMM. The Patent Office, after carefully reviewing all the additional prior art, concluded that the patent was valid and that QUALCOMM was also entitled to 19 new claims. The '459 Patent, entitled ''System and Method for Generating Signal Waveforms in a CDMA Cellular Telephone System,'' describes inventions for generating the basic CDMA waveforms used in CDMA wireless systems such as IS-95 and others. The same basic waveforms are also utilized in CDMA systems proposed for third-generation standards. The inventions of the '459 Patent enable multiple callers in a CDMA wireless telecommunications network to efficiently use the same frequency band without mutual interference, allowing for greater system capacity and better link performance. QUALCOMM's pioneering efforts in the development of CDMA cellular technology have yielded more than 200 issued U.S. patents relating to CDMA and hundreds of issued and pending CDMA patent applications around the world. While no single patent is critical to QUALCOMM's coverage of second or third generation CDMA wireless standards because QUALCOMM holds dozens of patents that are essential to the leading standards, the '459 Patent covers fundamental techniques for achieving high capacity in such CDMA systems. More than 60 major manufacturers of telecommunications equipment have taken royalty-bearing licenses under QUALCOMM's patent portfolio. QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - news) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. The Company's major business areas include CDMA phones; integrated CDMA chipsets and system software; wireless infrastructure; technology licensing; and satellite-based systems including OmniTRACS® and portions of the Globalstar(TM) system. QUALCOMM is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. QUALCOMM's fiscal 1998 revenues exceeded U.S. $3 billion. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at qualcomm.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including timely product development, the Company's ability to successfully manufacture significant quantities of CDMA or other equipment on a timely and profitable basis, and those related to performance guarantees, change in economic conditions of the various markets the Company serves, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 27, 1998, and most recent Form 10-Q. QUALCOMM and OmniTRACS are registered trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated. Globalstar is a trademark of Loral QUALCOMM Satellite Services, Incorporated. SOURCE: QUALCOMM Incorporated More Quotes and News: Qualcomm Inc (Nasdaq:QCOM - news) Related News Categories: telecom Help Copyright © 1999 PRNewswire. All rights reserved.