tero: But perhaps less effective. Brazil is a fun case, since the "incentives" are traditional. (Once called bribes - but of course, not now).
But what will actually happen is that Brazil will go to CDMA for sure. The frequency choice is a bumb in the road.
Since you are a closet USAphile (just my obervation, no way to really know of course - and probably wrong - you love Europe to your toes, no?), you of all people know the old add about the grizzled guy who used to say about oil filters, "you will either pay me now, or pay me later"
That is the mantra for Qualcomm.
The other image, which should appeal to you since it is dark, is the spider waiting in its net. Qualcomm is the spider, and CDMA is its net.
There is no way to avoid CDMA and therefore no way to avoid paying Qualcomm. What reverse payments may or may not be are noise.
Time is on Qualcomm's side.
Wish it were on Nokia's - but Nokia's advantages ( such as they are), are decaying rapidly in the face of the Asian tidal wave of phones with the best technologies and the lowest costs.
Bye bye Nokia.
Nokia handsets unter alles.
Best.
Chaz |
