Nokia will bring out GSM/CDMA dual mode devices. Q! will buy the rights to make GSM and put it in the ASICs they make. Maybe the two will get together by Q! selling Nokia the handset division and getting GSM rights for ASICs.
No, I have't followed Ericky versus Interdigital. Interdigital is an admirable company with heaps of excellent lawyers who do a good job of ensuring they get money from other companies. It would not pay to find anything detrimental about Interdigital because they might sue anyone saying anything that isn't totally admiring of their brilliance in creating CDMA for the world.
They have even taken part in something to do with setting 3G CDMA standards so everyone will want to pay them a fortune for their intellectual property so that WWeb can spread around the world. Nokia might also be interested in Interdigital WLL IP. I have no idea.
Also, on the IPR front, the world seems to be divided up into scroungers, bludgers and the good guys. Qualcomm seems to have consistently been on the right side of legal disputes.
It would be worth it to Nokia to create some FUD by supporting the idea that Interdigital and they have a way around Qualcomm technology. $70m is nothing if they can delay Qualcomm's technology by a month. Nokia is raking in many billions. When the GSM music stops, so does their big cashflow unless they can get CDMA singing. Who knows, they might even strike it lucky and get around the Q! patents or get an OJ judge or jury. It's all too tricky for me but I do know from the long, cynical, Ericy denigration of CDMA that motives are not always pure and genuine and fully nice, despite the glowering presence of the great JJJ Klan* protective collective ensuring no untoward shenanigans go on which might perpetuate monopolies, leverage them, or charge consumers money for goods and services.
So Interdigital has been granted some patents. That's a long way from implementation. Those patents might be challenged too. They might be a bit like W-CDMA. Allegedly different from cdma2000 and invented by NTT and Ericky, but the reality is gradually sliding into the clonezone.
'The market' believing something is just a fashionable collective. It's just a voting system. While many people are thrilled by democracy and believe everyone should submit their will to whatever ridiculous ideas some ephemeral majority cobbles together, it doesn't make that majority right. Markets and voters are suckers. The fact that Interdigital stock has been voted up, doesn't make it right that it is more valuable.
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*JJJ = Joel, Janet, Jackson three musketeers.
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