Also, WCDMA and CDMA2k are very different technologies and I don’t know if you can take a guy who has been doing CDMA work for 3 years and instantly train him to do GSM, EDGE or WCDMA. Best to hire someone who has worked directly with that technology recently don’t you agree? It can be done, but what I have seen is that the folks that know each technology tend to know nothing about the other and the learning curve is steep and takes time. Especially if you hope to design cutting edge devices and you are up against competition that has this stuff mastered. Nokia worldwide should have some resources to put towards this if they indeed are going to do this in San Diego. But re-hiring 300 CDMA engineers may not be the answer! Or if they do there is a great opportunity for a company to do on-site training:)
