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To: AlfaNut who wrote (75988)	4/1/2008 4:17:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 197190

Alfa, the total royalty on W-CDMA is apparently about 12%. QUALCOMM gets 5%. So the others get 7%. Nokia has a lot of the bells and whistles patents so they'll be getting a good chunk of that 7%. So they must have licences which are paid for. Also, they were a participant in the 16% GSM licensing rort in which the GSM Cartel ring-fenced their state-protected anti-competitive trust which required people without participation to pay them big heaps. <But one thing that may get in Nokia's way is that there is no clear monetary value attached to their IP - to the best of my knowledge they have not gotten license money out of other handset manufacturers. > Mqurice

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