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To: Puck who wrote (7778)	10/20/2000 12:23:45 AM
From: Allen	Read Replies (1) of 34857

Does not some international standards body governing WCDMA prescribe licensing ETSI governs WCDMA, mostly (there are other important players, like 3GPP). The only licensing requirement that ETSI places on its contributors is that they make their licenses available to all who want them on a fair basis - no selling to one manufacturer and not to another or charging one manufacturer more than another. Nokia has had CDMA licenses for handsets for quite a while. Qualcomm has a web page showing all the licensees, including Nokia. Nokia couldn't have sold the original 6195 without those licenses. Nokia has only recently developed a significant infrastructure business, and before that there was no need for infrastructure licenses. Of course, the licensing issues are different for CDMA2000 and WCDMA. The QCOM'rs on this board, from some reason, insist on making a mountain out of a molehill. And just to keep the pot stirred - as for China, I think that's still an open question - not so much for which technology they'll use but how much they'll actually spend on it.

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