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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 163.32+2.3%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST
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To: Dave who wrote (14773)9/10/1998 1:47:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (3) of 152472
 
Dave, Did they say they'd pay 7.314159% of gross sales for 20 years? Plus $1bn initial payment? Plus backward compatibility with cdmaOne. Plus the Qualcomm chip rate. All I saw them say was they'd give a nominal finder's fee for a couple of patents they say they don't really need or words to that effect. I'd also set a pre-requisite that the European countries agree that cdmaOne and cdma2000 can be freely sold in Europe.

Philips/Lucent has already agreed to a cdma2000 licence. Quite a big island! It is in the early days that licensing is needed. Those days were the late 1980s and early 1990s. Those days have gone. Once a company is big enough, licensing other companies is more of a distraction and brand contamination than an advantage. It might be that L M Ericsson is undesirable as a licencee.

It is a bit like people rushing to buy stock in a company AFTER the problems are all solved, sales are booming and profits are huge. If you check a few graphs, you'll see that the cheap prices are in the early days when risks are high, competition dominant and there is little light at the end of the tunnel.

The same for using Qualcomm's property. The cheap days have gone. Now I want very big payments for the years of no dividends, high risks and creativity by Qualcomm.

Mqurice
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