Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)

QCOM 173.96

+1.4%

Nov 11 3:59 PM EST

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: DaveMG who wrote (20886)	1/6/1999 3:48:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) of 152472

DaveMG - Nice to see someone commenting on the WSJ positive article. And not only that, it was more accurate then the vast majority of pieces, whether positive or negative on Qualcomm (remember that positive Qualcomm article in the SF Chronicle - positive but pretty poor on facts.) I think you found the only real point of confusion for the author - s/he doesn't quite understand all of the evolutionary issues between W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, IS-95, GSM et al. But nothing was strictly speaking wrong, just a little confused and that's far better than most articles on Qualcomm and CDMA. As for The Gov and mkt fundamentalists are rallying around this free marketplace clarion call, “let the mktplace decide”. While this sounds good in theory I think most of us would probably agree that the plethora of digital wireless standards here in US has been a pain in the ass, even though without it t Q might never have gotten CDMA off the ground. Is this really what we want perpetuated? Just to take the other side - eventually the dust will settle out and there will be several carriers with a US national footprint and in the interim it has encouraged new technologies. Sure it takes an extra year(?) to get to good roaming, but is that really to high a price to pay for the continual economic benefits of innovation. (Note that the European situation pre-GSM was a little different. There the problem was national interests - no one wanted to change their technology or allow in other players since telecom was, and still is to a lesser extent, a national asset. Thus roaming stunk and would likely never have been fixed without government intervention.) Clark

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next