Marginmike - how many professional people have a clue about Q! IPR? There must be 0.00001% of people have the remotest idea and you know enough to form a statistical base?
Great to see the cdma2000 camp mentioning 'red herrings', calling the stupid Ericy chip rate share bargaining 'offer' 'not an offer, but an insult'. This is language the news media can understand and it was backed up with good explanation.
It is staggering to think that there are people investing in Ericy, presumably on past glories, without seeing the risk they are taking.
What if Q! simply denies Ericy any further part in any of their property, deletes their emails, ignores their phone calls, throws letters in the bin and ejects them from the foyer with security staff?
Ericy would have to either win in Texas = fat chance, or make a 3G and 2G success of GSM and TDMA. Analog is kaput, and most people are starting to get that idea. TDMA too, though AT&T have had some marketing success in the USA and people are thinking they are the winner. That leaves GSM, and Nokia is wiping the floor with Ericy.
Ericy has now completely gone the CDMA way, but without much to back them up, while they have lost their GSM/TDMA/Analog positions. They are in a hugely hazardous position. Previously, they had market share they could contrive to offer Q! They don't even have that now. So just what are Ericy offering? The same licensing fees as everyone else agreed to pay when cdmaOne was a serious risk and there was major development work to do? The price should now be wayyyyyyyyyyyyy higher. One could even say there are enough licensees and we Q! shareholders don't really need any more to ensure wide and rapid success of cdmaOne and a maximized royalty stream.
Also, some people are simply not worth dealing with. Ericy has put themselves in that group. They are more trouble than they are worth. And hagfish don't change their leathery hides, they just go on emitting huge amounts of slime. Time for a BIG call and raise.
Also, why don't these ITU and SETI people get a real job? They are more pigs with their snout in the CDMA trough. There is no need for them. Q! can hold a meeting of interested parties who want a 3G standard and offer their standard directly, cutting out the middle man. If somebody, such as Ericy, doesn't like it or Q! thinks they are unworthy of joining in the standard, then let them call a meeting and establish their own standard. Then there could be a competition in the market between the different standards, which is what Ericy claims to seek.
Standards bodies are anachronisms handed down from medieval guilds, government power, permits, licensing, crony capitalism and socialism. The CDMA Development Group is a living example of how standards bodies should now be run - if there is some industry 'standard' that looks likely, the relevant parties can form a group to create it.
Perhaps best to let the 31 December date slide so ITU goes away and sets a 3G TDMA or PHS standard. Leave King Ericsson naked in the Xmas Swedish snow.
Mqurice
We are the smart money! $80 = 31 December 98.
Dow 16,000 Feb 2002 in case you forgot.
lose = fails to win
loose = the nut is likely to come undone
conciliatory = what we should be with engineers and artists whose spellcheck can't discriminate between loose and lose. Yes Jon, I notice loose is loosely used in place of lose.
On hagfish, Scientific American did a large story on them.
October 98 edition. Only a couple of notes at this url:
sciam.com
I wonder if red herrings are related to hagfish.
Jeff, I agree, Q! needs to have the whole chain of people knowing what's up and especially the reps dealing with potential subscribers. I hope Q! isn't an HQ centred organisation - it needs to be strong at the periphery where it meets the rest of the world, which is in the stores and on the Web where the customers are roaming the jungle.
Ericy down 10% today = looks as though investors are on to them
Q! up a little among the red. |
