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From: JohnG	11/2/2006 7:01:50 PM
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Given the small amount NOK contributes to QCOM's profits, it should be clear that the advantage NOK seeks in the negotiations is not saving the few million it pays QCOM. It is instead, screwing up the license agreements QCOM has with various other phone makers by demanding a huge reduction in royalties and seeing this reduction extended promptly to QCOM's other customers -- thus reducing QCOM's revenues by some huge multiple of what NOK pays QCOM. The goal is to strangle the resources QCOM uses to compete with NOK --the final goal being to deprive Chinese, Korean and some Japanese phone makers of the cutting edge ASICS and software from QCOM. Should this work out for NOK, then NOK, SONY-Erickson, and a couple of others (spell this POS6)would dominate the leading edge of technology. This seems unlikely to work without a great deal of meddling from that Euronut Commission. However, After the Euronuts screwed over GE, MSFT, INTC and several others, I suspect that the entire US High tech community is suspicious of their intentions.

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