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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 159.42-1.2%Jan 16 9:30 AM EST

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To: engineer who wrote (54159)8/4/2006 11:05:49 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 197253
 
deploying lots of micro BTS to increase

My recollection, too, and the basis of my statement which seems to have caused so much controversy, though I should have specified that it involved microBTSs, something I had forgotten until you mentioned it. As I recall, there are lots of sources corroborating this aspect of things.

Along comes Zyray and MIMO and produces a chipset which actually gets back 2.5 dB and WCDMA can work lots of other places now wihtout the $1B of extra BTS units. So BRCM buys ZYRAY and decides to enter the 3G fray. QCOM says "pay me a license" and BRCM says NO.

I stopped looking at the issue at about the time this happened. Before this took place, I guarantee you that NOK was salivating at the prospect of putting micro BTSs in every street corner. If my recall is correct [this happened a long time ago], the microBTSs were already designed and ready to go.
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