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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
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To: bananawind who wrote (13897)8/18/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 152472
 
Jim, re: "Japan, Europe forge ahead on 3G licenses"

This is crazy! Talk about the cart before the horse. Every man and his dog are racing off being first to 3G-W-CDMA-VW-SETI and they don't have any technology to use if you believe that Qualcomm owns patent rights on various vital elements, which 50 something cdmaOne licencees seem agree on. Even SETI and L M Ericsson seem to tacitly acknowledge that Qualcomm IPR is essential.

This is a very presumptuous and risky way for them to negotiate a licence. Suppose they build 100 trial networks and get handsets built and all the drama then Qualcomm decides to go it alone. Not selling any more licences. The SETI crowd will be up the creek without a paddle.

It can only make sense if they are planning on stealing the technology - using it without permission and hoping to get European court approval, or perhaps political approval and subsequent confiscatory regulation if the courts uphold Qualcomm's rights. "After all", their reasoning will go, "Qualcomm is a monopoly", which people seem to think is something bad despite all business being a monopoly to a greater or lesser extent. Which seems a very difficult concept for nearly everyone to grasp.

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