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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
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To: IHUBDOWN who wrote (49672)1/19/2006 4:41:40 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 196583
 
<Just remember WCDMA will never see the light of day......>

I don't think anyone ever said that. There was a big question on timing and in 1996, W-CDMA was obviously vaporware. You should check the definition of vaporware before you spout off. W-CDMA was not a functioning technology until Y2K and not commercial until 2002 [barely and inadequately] and not successful until 2004 and only got going in a big way in 2005, a decade after the big noise about it got under way. That's vaporware. Designed to keep the GSM people stringing along and paying more money while W-CDMA was purportedly just around the corner.

$100 bn was bid in Europe on the basis that W-CDMA was just around the corner. Oooops, it wasn't. That was a great con - from "We invented CDMA" to "No royalties for QCOM" and "It'll be gung ho in Y2K so just wait for it". Most people fell for the vaporware, which is the whole idea of vaporware. It's a con.

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