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Technology Stocks : The New QUALCOMM - Coming Into Buy Range
QCOM 177.78-2.2%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: mindykoeppel who wrote (888)8/15/2007 9:30:45 PM
From: waitwatchwander  Read Replies (1) of 9132
 
What is known about GSM/EDGE is that Qualcomm was not responsible for the inclusion of their property in the standard because only companies who previously manufactured GSM base equipment were allowed to vote on the setting of new standards. I also believe, but may be mistaken, that votes on the standard are distributed proportionally in some manner related to the revenue each company received from their sales of GSM related equipment (ie the cabal rules the roost).

The EDGE standard setting process seemed to very similar to the process that was used in the creation of the w-cdma standard.

Was Qualcomm montoring the work of the GSM/EDGE SSO? Of course, they needed to understand the standard in order to manufacture their multi-mode chipsets. It was probably most likely during that after-the-voting(?) work that they realized that their power control methods had been incorporated into the standard.

You ask questions which can only be answered in courts of law where judgements are subjected to the whims of the process.

Maybe Eric can pipe in and tell us if any Qualcomm employee actually attended any GERAN SSO meetings or if they just monitored their activities from afar via consultants.
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