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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: waverider who wrote (75792)	7/7/2000 11:41:39 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

re: Superior marketing and FUD is the basic story It seems to me that the basic story is: a lot of powerful (mostly non-American) companies, aided by their powerful governments, saw QCOM becoming another MSFT, INTC, or CSCO. They didn't want another American giant taking almost all the available profits in yet another tech sector. So they got together and created WCDMA. The endless discussions of the relative technological merits of the CDMA variants, are all beside the point. The decision was not, and will not, be made on that basis. But QCOM will still make a lot of money, even with WCDMA as the global 3G standard. I can't buy 100,000 shares, like marginmike, but I intend to put 20-30% of my portfolio into QCOM, sometime in the next 3 weeks.