Certainly for Europe, the switch to CDMA is revolutionary. Certainly, the W-CDMA chip rate proposed offers no improvements to the one currently used in cdmaOne and offered in Wideband cdmaOne. We believe an inclusive, evolutionary approach will better serve consumers the world over. Another consistent principle of US policy has been that, simply put, intellectual property matters. Congress has consistently protected the intellectual property rights of all companies and has recently taken steps to protect American companies from software infringement and outright piracy around the world.
Intellectual property is at the center of the third-generation debate as well.
The only major manufacturer of wireless equipment in the world who has refused to obtain a license is Ericsson. These claims are untrue. The W-CDMA standard offered by ETSI provides no technical advantages to Wideband cdmaOne and will only raise the cost to consumers. We have outlined to both ETSI and ARIB the specific conditions that will achieve this goal and allow us to license our intellectual property for a third-generation standard. We would hope that the integrity of intellectual property and the WIPO process will continue to protect innovators and their inventions.