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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (5051)	5/29/2000 10:49:00 AM
From: gdichaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero: Again it is a question of who is whistling past the graveyard to keep their "spirits" up. Since Qualcomm pulls in money whatever Korea "decides", this is hardly doomsday for Qualcomm. But if it goes the way of CDMA 2000 (and of course Korea is already moving to CDMA 2000 phase one with 1xMC and then HDR tags along), Nokia needs to get on the CDMA bandwagon sooner rather than later. And Nokia will pay Qualcomm if it goes the WCDMA way. It is win/win for the Q. This will be most interesting to watch. And of course meanwhile CDMA in its various forms moves ahead in North America, South America, Australia, Japan and other parts of Asia, etc, etc. China is just frosting on a rapidly growing cake for Qualcomm. Best. Chaz

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (5051)	5/29/2000 11:03:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 34857

<The DoCoMo-SK Telecom deal anticipated by Bloomberg would more or less seal the fate of cdma2000 in Asia.> This play by NOK-DoCoMO will never materialize. Q has to much wiggle room, but i don't blame for last desperation:) To: Ramsey Su who started this subject From: data_rox Monday, May 29, 2000 7:53 AM ET Reply # of 10992 FOREIGN FIRMS COMPETE TO LOWER IMT-2000 ROYALTIES IN KOREA SEOUL, May 29, 2000 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Foreign firms with telecommunications technology patents such as Qualcomm, Nokia and Ericsson are competing to lower royalties. The Information and Communication Ministry said Monday that representatives from Ericsson visited Seoul last week and offered to lower royalties on core components to under 5 percent. Nokia also offered to charge royalties lower than that of Qualcomm, which has synchronous technology patents. Qualcomm also told the ministry that it will receive lower royalties than European companies from Korean IMT-2000 carriers. The ministry is reportedly considering asking the firms to lower their royalties to below 4 percent as the suggested royalties are only marginally lower than the present 5.2 to 5.7 percent. It may also help guide Korean companies in joint negotiations with the foreign companies to lower royalties. Representatives of Nokia and Ericsson will visit the ministry again for negotiations Friday. Qualcomm will reportedly send a high-level executive to Korea in the middle of next month for negotiations. The ministry will decide if the country will adopt CDMA 2000 (synchronous mode) or W-CDMA (asynchronous mode) as IMT-2000 standards after watching the royalty negotiations. (YONHAP) (C) 2000 Asia Pulse Pte Ltd