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To: gdichaz who wrote (846)	8/14/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: GO*QCOM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Motorola will feel the brunt of the there mistake if they don't walk away from there DEATHSTAR Iridium.Motorola would do itself alot of good if it limited itself from any more exposure to Iridium fallout and made an honest attempt to drop the lawsuites pending against QUALCOMM.Motorola's saving grace is its CDMA license from QUALCOMM and no doubt QUALCOMM ASICS.This is what has returned Motorola to profitability.They could walk away from Iridium with as little as 600 million loss and make that money up from sale of its semiconductor section that it recently did.Motorola needs to get on with it now ,but instead ,what is it doing causing more alienation of its CDMA creator QUALCOMM.The management will either bring this company down to its knees as happened to one other large world wide telecom vendor, or it will rise to a growig CDMA market.Maybe Motorola should negotiate with QUALCOMM and come out as any other royalty paying vendor ,paying the going rate of royalties to QUALCOMM, drop the Q Phone and patent actions against QUALCOMM.In exchange QUALCOMM would license them to make GLOBALSTAR phones at the going rate for license fees and royalties.This way Motorola would have a satellite phone to crow about and no chain and ball around its ankle with Iridium engraved on it.