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To: foundation who wrote (22372)	5/8/2002 7:14:31 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (4) of 196961

www-edocs.unimaas.nl I can hear Jorma mumbling. "Why can't we just repeat what we did with GSM? (see above link) Afterall, Nokia is contributing the most important essential elements of any technology - color face plates!" Nokia's proposal is such an act of desperation that it is almost silly. How could this possibly work? I suppose if a select group agree to set up some artificial barrier for all future entries, in exchange for this assured 5%, then the monopolistic benefits to the group could justify this compromise? Wait. Isn't that the GSM cabal? What if Nokia miraculously invented a technique that can cut the cost of anything-WCDMA in half, would they share the technology for a portion of this 5%? The fact that Nokia, knowing full well what they have to pay QCOM, proposes something like this is a plain admission that they have nothing whatsoever to offer. I hope the carriers are not holding their breath, waiting for the deliviery of the wcdma networks this year. The tragedy being that the solution is so simple for Nokia. Do a tech JV with QCOM and they will immediately be assured the lead role in wireless for decades to come. .... but those egos .... Ramsey

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