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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (5176)	6/1/2000 8:56:00 AM
From: Mr.Fun	of 34857

Please note that the press release says nothing about the relative size of the royalty payments, nor does it support the contention that royalty payments to Q will be the same for all of the CDMA variant technologies. I have no inside information as to specific contracts with Qualcom nor am I making any judgment as to the value of the relative contribution of the various companies involved in W-CDMA. I am saying that in meetings with Ericsson exectutives it does not seem as cut and dried as the Qualcomm supporters would have you believe. Essentially, Ericsson SAYS that the royalty payments it receives from W-CDMA will equal or exceed the royalty payments it makes. Nokia and Motorola say the same thing. I also think that it is not in anyone's interest to see this thing in court and the assembled companies will agree to some royalty scheme. Qualcomm needs to sell chipsets for W-CDMA, and if it takes this all the way to court, it will be cutting off its nose to spite its face - moral victory, IPR royalties, but no position in the chipset market.

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