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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DaveMG who wrote (180)	7/4/2000 5:42:24 PM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197455

NTT builds out first operational network in Yokahama".... without finalized royalty arrangements in place. The issue of who owes and pays royalties to QCOM form W-CDMA still confuses me. It seems to me that NTT, as a service provider, will not owe royalties to QCOM. It seems to me it is the equipment providers are the ones who will have to pay royalties to QCOM. So what matters is whether or not the equipment providers have signed 3G royalty agreements with QCOM. For example, Lucent is one of the equipment providers working with NTT doCoMo on W-CDMA. They are also, as I understand it, a 3G licensee of QCOM. So we can expect that Lucent will pay royalties to QCOM on any W-CDMA equipment sold. If this is accurate, then what it seems we need to know is who are the other W-CDMA equipment providers working with DoCoMo and are they or are they not QCOM licensees. Does anyone know the answer?