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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 152.66+0.7%3:59 PM EST

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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (110489)1/8/2002 5:50:19 PM
From: David E. Taylor  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
Mucho:

This post from last November had some useful info on handset selling prices in China, and, if the article is correct, they're not as low as some skeptics have been claiming:

Message 16688792

"Average" SP per JP Morgan - $181

MOT "low priced" T189 - $157

60% of market was for phones with ASP's $182 or less (1500 yuan)

"High end" users buy phones with ASP's $300 - $360 (2,500 - 3,000 yuan)

These prices are all (I assume) for GSM handsets, but CDMA handsets will certainly be competitive in price.
To continue subscriber growth in China at historic and forecast levels, I'd expect that Mobile and Unicom will have to introduce handsets that are below $150 and maybe down around $100 in price, with monthly usage pricing plans to suit. Lower cost handsets are the motivation behind the recently announced QCOM MSM 6000 CDMA 1x chipset.

David T.
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