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To: quidditch who wrote (2518)	10/19/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Thanks for your input on royalties, Steven. I tend to agree that maybe a royalty based upon a percentage of the price of the computer may not be optimum. This would collect more royalty if the computer had more ram or a larger HD, etc. That may not be desirable. However, with handsets there is a royalty collected on the ASIC and a separate royalty collected on the value of the handset and I don't think this second royalty should be neglected :-) Perhaps the ASIC royalty for computers could be adjusted higher to compensate. In other words, the total royalty on a computer should be at least equal to, perhaps more, than the total royalty on a handset. Consider that a CDMA laptop can do everything a handset can do and much more. I am all for lower rates to increase rate of adoption but this is more true for voice than high speed data. Let's not forget that CDMA's cost, capacity, quality advantage is even more pronounced with data. I would not think it would be optimum for the markets appetite for fast data to be full-filled by CDMA, leaving TDMA based technologies plenty of capacity to continue to dominate voice service. Much better to entice TDMA to compete in the data market, filling up the TDMA network bandwidth sooner and accelerating the eventual upgrade to CDMA for voice and data. Something to consider anyway and I am open to other insights here as I realize I am out on a limb. Bux