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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: SKIP PAUL who wrote (73699)6/12/2000 4:00:00 PM
From: DWB  Read Replies (4) of 152472
 
Actually per this link:

biz.yahoo.com

It seems to say that they are expecting to add 1.1 million users for that $400 million expenditure (100K users now, want to get to 1.2 million after buildout...)

So does it make sense to say that:

$900 million/1.5 million users = $600/user GSM infra. spending

$400 million/1.1 million users = $363/user CDMAone infra. spending

How much would these be expected to be affected by terrain, user density, existing infrastructure, etc.? I would have thought that the GSM would be lower, based on the huge user base advantage the GSM community has, much less the number of competitors etc... this would seem to be a slap in the face of all the "CDMAone is more expensive than GSM" talk... What am I missing here?

DWB
Q2.5K/Y2K+5
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