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To: djane who wrote (2072)	10/6/1999 7:54:00 PM
From: Cooters	Respond to of 13582

<<[Interesting European jabs at QCOM as well...]>> Those are actually some of the nicer things the Europeans have said about QCOM, IMHO. Cooters

To: djane who wrote (2072)	10/6/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: RoseCampion	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

djane, thanks for the G* article. I especially thought this section on Q was interesting: "Through this whole experience, Qualcomm has not behaved like a partner," says Legarde as we drive through the French countryside outside Toulouse. "Qualcomm does excellent work, and they have great technology, but if we can avoid being in partnership with them, we will. They're an extremely arrogant company, and they will roll over anybody in front of them. Even their partners." Gasparollo, as always, takes a more temperate line. "Certainly I wish we had been able to have a different kind of contract with Qualcomm, but when I see the performance of Iridium, I'm happy we have Qualcomm," he says. "While they have perhaps made more money than we had planned, they've also done more work. Maybe we would have saved one, two, three hundred million dollars, but the quality of their work has been superb, and they've responded to changes very quickly."