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To: henry8 who wrote (32)	8/4/2009 10:44:18 AM
From: henry8	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116

Let's look at W-CDMA on which Qualcomm and the CDMA industry have to a great extent pinned their hopes on. What was the origin of W-CDMA? W-CDMA was originally conceived by Ericsson and others in the European GSM industry as a subterfuge to defeat the adoption at the ITU of a 3G CDMA standard compatible with existing cdmaOne (IS-95) networks. The hope was that the ITU would adopt W-CDMA exclusively as the only cdma-based 3G standard. There was no intention at the time of allowing cdma2000 to be approved along with W-CDMA for that would have defeated the purpose of the whole effort. And what was that purpose? To kill 3G CDMA globally. Not just in europe or Asia, but in the United States as well. Now, as we all know, the CDMA industry finally figured out what was happening and defeated Ericsson's and the GSM industry's efforts at the ITU. So, the question is, given this origin of W-CDMA, how can anyone really believe Ericsson and other GSM vendors are truly interested in deploying W-CDMA? After all, W-CDMA's reason for being in the first place was to kill CDMA. I leave it to you to figure this out.