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To: slacker711 who wrote (2659)	6/16/1999 9:19:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure what Qualcomm gave up, except for the contracts with LEAP, and various other start-ups (Russia, Brazil, Mexico). They also gave up having to provide financing of the base stations for their customers. --Mike Buckley

To: slacker711 who wrote (2659)	6/16/1999 9:26:00 AM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

In a QCOM press release on their www site dated 5/24/99 it states that they were introducing 2 modems (CSM 5000 and MSM 5000) but apparently these were going to be sold to wireless infrastructure companies. According to your post and this press release I think that strongly implies that QCOM will not be directly in the infrastructure business, but will sell software, chips and other pieces of equipment to these vendors. It's especially informative that all of QCOM's infrastructure employees didn't go with the deal, so they retain intellectual capital in infrastructure design.