Tero, did you look up the meaning of the word "cabal" before using it to describe the Q longs at SI? A cabal is a conspiratorial group of plotters and intriguers. Hardly the group of sinister individuals you describe. However, I can understand the imprecise, rhetorical use of the word, particularly where more accurate words would rob your language of its colorful effect.
Will you allow me a few ignorant questions? Who has the IPR rights to GSM? Any sensible Nordics who are willing to make GSM an open standard? Are any of these sensible Nordics getting paid royalty fees?
What a good joke! The Q is a business, duty-bound to make profits for its shareholders. The cooperation between Nokia and Ericsson on EDGE and GPRS is purely a scheme designed to get the Q to lower its licensing rates. If their interest were otherwise adverse, they would be at each others' throats. Sensible Nordics, indeed!
No dice, Tero. The Q has essential WCDMA patents, and will sell IPR's on CDMA, whatever its flavor, as a package deal. End of story.
It should be obvious by now. The Q is launching CDMA2000. It will also get paid for WCDMA, should it ever get off the ground. Making GPRS and EDGE open standards is a thinly-disguised scheme. In fact, to do so is to acknowledge their deficiencies. No one gives away the good stuff.
Regards,
A Cabalist |
