But not Matsushita!! (Although they did sign a Modem Card License back in Jan. timeframe)
I'm curious....do you really believe that Matsushita will be paying royalties on modem cards and not on handsets? I would love to hear an explanation on how they could manage do to this since a handset and a modem card are only slighly different implementations of CDMA.
Anyway....a little research shows that Matsushita was licensed back in July '00.
qualcomm.com
Under these agreements, a licensee pays the same royalty rate to QUALCOMM for WCDMA and cdma2000 equipment as for cdmaOne infrastructure, phones, semiconductors and other equipment. Companies with licenses for WCDMA include Samsung, Lucent, Ericsson, Nortel, Hyundai, LG, Sony, Hitachi, ALPS, Matsushita, Maxon, OKI and Philips."
The modem card license wasnt announced until Jan. '01. Qualcomm doesnt always announce the licenses when they are actually signed (I have no idea why)....
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