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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (56794)	12/3/2004 1:52:04 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 74559

QUALCOMM left a LOT of money on the table. Instead of 5% royalty, they should have charged about 30% royalty. But 5% is an enormous, astronomical amount, considering the hundreds of billions involved. Any more and the political pressure on Q would have been unbearable. Plus, WCDMA, on which Q's megabucks will be made, would not ever have gotten off the ground. The Hagfish would have developed EDGE until it was satisfactory. Plus, Q is hated for the notion that it was porcine. theregister.co.uk Can you imagine the effort that would have taken place to get around Q's patents if the asking rate was 30%? No, IMJ played it just right.

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