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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 178.28-1.6%Dec 12 3:59 PM EST
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To: Qgent who wrote (62322)4/10/2007 2:37:43 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 196961
 
Better news for China and QUALCOMM would have been that they are rolling out 450MHz CDMA2000 EV-DORB with wifi and OFDM on board Anita [TM] handsets.

Their stupid xenophobic totalitarian thieving ideology means they are up a gum tree with their dopey TD-SCDMA which nobody else around the world will buy.

The royalty on CDMA2000 for use in China is already near-zero. They are planning on chiseling the last 2% from QUALCOMM and using ineffectual technology to do it. Their costs will be HIGHER than CDMA2000 because even with 1 billion people, that's just a small proportion of 6 billion total humans, many of whom are using CDMA2000. We have heard a lot about economies of scale in the cellphone world and the costs which fall on those with low market share.

CDMA2000 has lower royalties than the 12% charged by the greedy GSM Guild for W-CDMA. And it's more advanced. So China should ditch TD-SCDMA, or maintain it as a hobby, just for fun, and go Gung Ho with CDMA2000 and make the world's biggest fortune ever in human history.

Instead, China is relegating itself to a footnote in history. Unsurprisingly.

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