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To: pcstel who wrote (96707)	4/3/2001 11:15:18 PM
From: Getch	Read Replies (1) of 152472

pcstel, Congratulations for your IDC picking up some patent support for W-CDMA. As one of over twenty claimants of W-CDMA IPR you have every right to be thrilled when a large company accepts your claims. However, this is a thread about Qualcomm. Qualcomm, the basis for this conversation, has never made any claim to being the sole contributor to W-CDMA IPR. In fact, the many small insects like IDC swarming around the W-CDMA dung heap will go a long way to making W-CDMA prohibitively expensive. So many more claims to pay by any eventual W-CDMA user will only add to the advantages enjoyed by CDMA 2000 customers. Qualcomm has stated many times they will be paid the same royalty rate for CDMA 2000 or W-CDMA. It does not matter to Qualcomm how many other companies also get paid for W-CDMA. Again, congratulations, on news which will have absolutely no effect upon Qualcomm. May I suggest going over to the Matsushita thread and boasting about how their W-CDMA equipment is now going to be even more expensive?

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