Lawmaker Wants Postwar Iraq To Use Qualcomm Technology (not GSM from European equipment companies).

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:36:34 +0100
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Lawmaker Wants Postwar Iraq To Use Qualcomm Technology (not GSM
from European equipment companies).

"U.S. government will soon hand U.S. taxpayer dollars over to French,
German, and other European cellphone equipment companies to build the new
Iraqi cellphone system. This is not acceptable,"

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Lawmaker Wants Postwar Iraq
To Use Qualcomm Technology

By JESSE DRUCKER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

The battle over Iraq's postwar reconstruction has spread from the United
Nations to the U.S. Congress, with a California lawmaker demanding that
planners choose a wireless-phone technology developed by an American
company.

Rep. Darrell Issa sent letters to the Pentagon, the U.S. Agency for
International Development and fellow lawmakers urging them to support the
deployment of CDMA, a wireless technology developed commercially by Qualcomm
Inc.

"We have learned that planners at the Department of Defense and USAID are
currently envisioning using federal appropriations to deploy a
European-based wireless technology known as GSM ('Groupe Speciale Mobile' --
this standard was developed by the French) for this new Iraqi cellphone
system," Mr. Issa wrote to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Mr. Issa, a Republican, wrote that if GSM technology is deployed in Iraq,
much of the equipment used to build that nation's cellphone system will be
made in Western and Northern Europe. The "U.S. government will soon hand
U.S. taxpayer dollars over to French, German, and other European cellphone
equipment companies to build the new Iraqi cellphone system. This is not
acceptable," he wrote. He plans to introduce legislation related to the
matter on Thursday.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB104873464980130600,00.html

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