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To: engineer who wrote (27159)	4/15/1999 2:41:00 PM
From: DaveMG	Respond to of 152472

I think you are confusing the handset business with the infrastrcuture business. The infra has to support all modes..the handset can support one, two, 3, or 100 if it wants. Look at today, the handsets can support PCS, CDMA800, GSM, analog, etc if they want. I think that by having the infra support all 3 modes, then the best handsets will win out in the end. If there has been no WCDMA mode handsets to date and IS-95 is on the 5,6,7th generation, then which one will the consumers choose if it comes to size, battery life, features, etc? Any chance you can flesh this out a little more? Does this mean whatever NTT builds its infrastructure will support all modes so that regardless of it chipping rate etc it'll support TDD or CDMA2000? Sounds expensive..DMG

To: engineer who wrote (27159)	4/15/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 152472

Engineer - I think that by having the infra support all 3 modes, then the best handsets will win out in the end. If there has been no WCDMA mode handsets to date and IS-95 is on the 5,6,7th generation, then which one will the consumers choose if it comes to size, battery life, features, etc? Methinks you overestimate the technical savvy of the operators and European government. If they were really that technically knowledgable would they have signed up for W-CDMA in their bids for the next slice of spectrum as almost all of the European vendors have? I do expect that operators in need of convergence (e.g. Vodafone), quick solutions (e.g. NTT), or political solutions (e.g. China) are much more likely to go with the CDMA-2000 mode for infrastructure buildouts. BUT, companies not pressured by these considerations are probably not going to pay as much attention beyond going to their traditional vendors. Sadly this is the way a lot of operators work (most of my experience is in satellites, but some in WLL as well). Again, JMO. Clark