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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 174.01-0.3%Nov 14 9:30 AM EST

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To: Mannie who wrote (43966)10/10/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: Ruffian  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
This is the same analyst who downgraded Q 2 weeks ago!>

"Owning the rights to CDMA would have been like holding the patents on the internal
combustion engine in the 1920s," he said in a recent report. "Everyone who bought a
car would have paid a royalty on the engine in that car."

Three wireless standards are used around the world. They are CDMA, used by service
providers such as Bell Atlantic Mobile; GSM, used by Omnipoint; and TDMA, a
variation of GSM that is used by AT&T Wireless Services.

Yet it is Qualcomm's CDMA standard that is the most popular, simply because it can
carry more calls than the other two standards. "CDMA is the key to next-generation
wireless technology," says David Heger of A.G. Edwards.

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