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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 151.59-0.4%Jan 30 3:59 PM EST
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To: quartersawyer who wrote (43702)12/12/2004 2:13:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 197452
 
Bombing China's embassy in Belgrade news.bbc.co.uk was a BIGGGGGG mistake. If that hadn't happened, CDMA would have been accepted a couple of years earlier and GSM would never have had the huge head-start and it would have been a simple matter for China to upgrade to 1xEV-DO etc.

I don't believe that it was an unintentional bombing. It probably even had a big Chinese flag flying. Either those conducting the war were total morons or they were showing China what would happen if they gave support to Milosevic and co. Either is a bad situation.

There could now be 400 million CDMA subscribers in China, instead of GSM, with upgrading to 1xEV-DO underway, and TD-SCDMA wouldn't be under development.

400 million x $20 = $8 billion for QUALCOMM.

Lots of subscribers would be on their second phone, so it would have been more like $10 billion on the bottom line and sitting in the cash account [less tax - which would have been $3 bn for King George II to blunder around in Iraq].

That was a very big mistake. Maybe the soldiers could be less trigger happy and the politicians could be less belligerent.

Mqurice
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