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To: Terrapin who wrote (4911)	5/16/2000 1:59:00 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 34857

I was merely curious about the terms of the deal. Terms of the deal have of course not been announced. Therefore, one must fall back on conjecture. As such, the use of the word "seems" in my sentence was very deliberate. I apologize if this is very boring to you, but I have this annoying habit of trying to be careful in how I phrase things. Factors leading to my conjecture of QCOM's accommodativeness include: 1) DDI's indication of possibly choosing W-CDMA in lieu of cdma-2000 2) QCOM's response that it would build its own cdma-2000 network in Japan (my interpretation: act of desperation) 3) Reconciliation between two parties (my interpretation: QCOM provides more lenient terms than it would have if 1) and 2) had not occurred) Note that if 3) (my conjecture) is valid, one can venture to guess that Sprint will have greater leverage than if none of the above occurred. Perhaps Sprint would have had even greater leverage if DDI had stuck with W-CDMA, but then again, at that point cdma-2000 adoption might have been a moot point.