TJ, there is a thing called cherry picking. For example, Korean CDMA licensees looked over the fence and saw Chinese companies were enjoying royalties of about 2% while they were paying about 5%. They whined like a fleet of 747s, demanding the same royalty.
QUALCOMM pointed out to them that export royalties from China were 7% rather than the 5% that the Korean companies were enjoying and invited them to sign up to the same contract as the Chinese companies were enjoying.
The Koreans went quieter, but kept whining about royalties in general - believing that they should get a free lunch, free CDMA and presumably free 0FDM.
If you read the fine print in my original offer, you will see a certain mention of a man by the name of Hu Jintao, who is a kleptocrat enjoying being boss of China, Tibet, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hainan and wannabe boss of Taiwan.
As an incentive for you to help get OFDM in 450MHz going around the world, and especially in China, and in the absence of payment for your translation assistance, I offered to provide Ai-Li with one of said 450MHz OFDM cyberphones when Hu Jintao and co have gone Gung Ho and actually invented them.
At present, there is NO 450MHz OFDM in China, or Hong Kong, Tibet, Shanghai, Hainan or Taiwan and certainly no devices available to buy to use on those networks. Or anywhere else for that matter, though Finland is setting up a network.
TD-SCDMA is the dead-end alley up which China is being forced, which is intended to steal even the last little bit of intellectual property payment from QUALCOMM. Refusing to pay even 2% is greedy to a very high degree and shows the wisdom of QUALCOMM recognizing the grabby ways of those in China by making it 7% for export and 2% for local.
One would think that 2% is such a laughably low royalty, that China would pay it. W-CDMA royalties are 12%. GSM 16% [though some of those patents must have expired by now].
Anyway, let me know when you have got 450MHz OFDM going in China so you can all move onto the best system in the world instead of dead-end TD-SCDMA.
You have got a chance to help China become top-notch place on the planet, while making vast fortunes from OFDM. As a guide, check out how much money Korea has made from CDMA over a decade since they started selling it. Imagine how much money China could make if they got going flat out in 450MHzOFDM using their home-base 1.3 billion people to support its development.
Or, you could just ogle your gold some more.
Go on, make that call. Hu will be happy? I will! You will. If you get it going, I will provide said 450MHz OFDM swanky cybercerfer. Until you get it going, they won't be available.
Mqurice
PS: That's funny, I asked Google for his phone number to save you the trouble of locating it and can't find it. Maybe it's written in Mandarin somewhere. |
