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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (52132)	4/21/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Respond to of 164684

Geeez, Sarmad, you sound a lot more knowledgeable re-Qcom than me. I just have 3 cell-phones and everybody I know have cell phones...

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (52132)	4/21/1999 7:50:00 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 164684

Sarmad -- <Did they get their way finally ?> Yes, combined with truly blowout numbers and a sustainable growth rate to die for. This just might be another DELL.

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (52132)	4/21/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: divvie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Europe has been on the inferior (to CDMA) standard for years. But atleast you could use the same phone and number in virtually all of Europe and large parts of Asia also. It would have been nice for world travellers if the FTC had set a standard instead of auctioning off the digital spectrum, but I do agree in the free market economy so have to make do with an Omnipoint phone as I can atleast use my SIM card, thereby use my US account and phone number, in a rented phone when I go to Europe. If the whole world had settled on GSM, then there would be no need for Iridium. Now the G3 standard is being thrashed out in Europe. Again a standard being agreed upon by different countries, again this is very helpful, and this may actually set a standard for the world (watch out Iridium). However the Europeans only want to use a modified form of CDMA that, at first pass, looked sufficiently different from QCOM's version that a large number of their patents would not be in use, thus resulting in much lower licensing fees than expected. I believe that their were concessions made and everyone is happy now. Don't know the details though.