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To: Gregg Powers who wrote (20198)	12/22/1998 5:33:00 PM
From: SKIP PAUL	Read Replies (2) of 152472

/3/ If Qualcomm has the blocking IPR that one can reasonably infer from the above developments, what incentive does the company have to compromise? Said another way, other than the painful PR being bandied about, why should someone with four aces be willing to share the pot? Thats an interesting question. If QCOM refused to licence it's IPR for WCDMA what are the viable choices for ERICY: 1. Work around QCOM's IPR. which could take years to develop if at all. 2. Start selling WCDMA without a license from QCOM and take a chance in the courts. This could expose it to huge risks. 3. Become a CDMAone and CDMA2000 licensee and compete with other licensees way behind Nokia. Seems to me that ERICY is caught between a rock and a hard place. It is either going to have to buy QCOM or sell itself to someone like Lucent.

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