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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (11741)	6/7/2000 11:11:00 AM
From: A.L. Reagan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

If QCOM demands its full royalty and others do too, how will DS be able to compete with MC. Same way royalty-pregnant GSM competed with IS-95. Many of the players will no doubt participate in a patent pool, and the lower pool royalty rates will be available only to pool members. Pool members who seperately license, or x-license non-poolers will be able to charge them uniformly higher rates. At least that's the way these types of arrangements have typically functioned in the past. Eric L. might have a better perspective on how the DS IPR cost structure is likely to play out.