I'd suggest you glean from the CC from what Boeckler said, a couple things I seem to remember: That HDR is one of their solutions in China, but they are working on multiple parallel paths of their business plan, remember what he said about the timing of 3G products, and their plans for manufacturing in China.
We're gonna have to wait and see how Qualcommtel fits into the picture here. I just posted that perhaps LinkAir's prototype might be the WLL that AccessTel deploys in the Shanghai Bushiness park, but maybe that development is a JV with Q, or someone else. Seems tough to speculate very much right now. Here are some sections from the links that I thought relevant:
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The iMSM5500 chipset and system software will provide up to twice the overall capacity of voice users over IS-95A and IS-95B, plus the 2.4 Mbps speed of HDR, fully realizing the convergence of the Internet and wireless technologies and services.
Also part of QCT's end-to-end HDR solution is the CSM5500™ Cell Site Modem (CSM™) chipset. The CSM5500 solution, the industry's first HDR CSM standards-based chipset that supports 2.4 Mbps peak rate, represents an economical, power-efficient and highly compatible upgrade from existing Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based HDR infrastructure solutions.
Samples of both the iMSM5500 and CSM5500 chipsets and system software are scheduled for mid-2001 with production quantities scheduled for the second half of 2001.
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Leading Vendors Voice Support "As the embedded processor of choice for digital wireless applications, the ARM(r) architecture is supported by a wide range of industry-accepted consumer electronics operating systems, making it the ideal solution for QUALCOMM's new portable Internet access devices," said Reynette Au, vice president of worldwide marketing for ARM. "The new iMSM products, which are based on a low-power, high-performance ARM processor, will facilitate the rapid, efficient evolution of smart platforms demonstrating once again why QUALCOMM is an industry leader in wireless communications.
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