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To: carranza2 who wrote (75716)	7/7/2000 4:36:20 PM
From: freeus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

rethere will be bumps along the way WILL BE? Freeus

To: carranza2 who wrote (75716)	7/7/2000 5:02:33 PM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

You call this a "bump"??? A year and a half ago--at 1 a.m.--I spun out in a winter storm on an interstate at 55 mph. My car did two 360's and then three rollovers down a 200-ft snow embankment. The back of my head smashed through the windshield. Amazingly, I never lost consciousness. I beat my way out of the car, climbed the embankment, and walked a mile for help. After a rather minor operation to remove the glass from being embedded in the back of my head, I was released from the hospital at 10 a.m. the same day. What a miracle! THAT was a bump. THIS is a head-on collision! I have "balls of steel." But I entered this stock in November and it is ruining me. If I sell this stock I will be casually referred to as one of the "weak hands." What a joke! It's time for Qualcomm to hit the PR road for its investors. I will grant you that it controls incredible technology. But the lack of clarity in the wCDMA area is what is killing this stock and setting Qualcomm up to be taken out. My problem, quite simply, is that I, like most investors, am not an engineer. Qualcomm needs to clear up the CDMA2000/wCDMA mess. It can do that. It doesn't have to wait for "the year 2525" for that wCDMA nonsense to roll out and defend its IPR. If it waits too long, the company is going to be taken out. A $35-40 billion market cap is certaining susceptible to a hostile takeover. - john -