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To: Uncle Frank who wrote (71126)	4/24/2000 4:08:00 PM
From: 100cfm	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

I'm also surprised that Matsumoto implies Q wouldn't be successful as a supplier of wcdma asics: Although Qualcomm generates the same royalty rates from both W-CDMA and CDMA2000 technology, he noted that a shutout of CDMA2000 technology would hurt Qualcomm's sales of semiconductor chip sets for mobile handsets in Japan. Frank this was my exact concern when I asked why is Q fighting the world. The answer from the above is clear, Q will not be producing DS-CDMA chips and will only recieve a small royalty on their patents from the other players who will be producing them. There was always somehting suspicious in my mind why a company who stands to make money on a product would fight against it so hard. And I don't buy the rationale that cdma2000 is better so thats what we want to go forward. Who cares which is better if the carriers want DS, make it,give it to them and pocket the profits and royalties. End of story and holy wars! HOW THE HELL DID WE ALL MISS THIS!! 100 sorry for the rant but I'm pissed and hope I'm wrong but somebody needs to do some serious explaining.