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To: Ruffian who wrote (5021)	5/26/2000 3:08:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Did you read the comments on W-CDMA made by the Ericsson executive in Korea? Did you get the reference about Nokia, Ericsson and NTT-DoCoMo? You may think that the IPR situation is cut and dried. It's not. This is a Nokia thread and I don't need to take my comments about W-CDMA to PM. You probably read Mika's question about W-CDMA. How about answering it? What proportion of W-CDMA infrastructure sales involves Qualcomm's patents? Is it 50%... or 30%... or 10%? That depends on how the network orders are structured. It is possible to sell the air interface products separately from all the other stuff. And it's possible to charge 90% of the entire network order for the early, "W-CDMA compatible" portion and then sell the last piece for peanuts. Tero