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To: carranza2 who wrote (6179)	7/9/2000 8:03:10 PM
From: Labrador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

>>Qualcomm holds patents for both WCDMA and CDMA2000, but officials at the three companies said Qualcomm asks for higher royalties than Nokia and Ericsson. "It would save us money to use Nokia and Ericsson's technology over ualcomm's if we decide to use WCDMA," said Won Hong Sik, a spokesman for SK Telecom.<< This statement makes no sense. QCOM's stated royalty rate is the same for both W-CDMA and CDMA2000. Nokia and Ericsson cannot offer WCDMA without a royalty arrangement with QCOM, which they don't have. [I would think that NOK and Ericsson's rate would be and should be less that QCOM's rate, as QCOM has the vital CDMA patents which make W-CDMA work. QCOM's CMDA2000 don't need NOK and Ericsson's patents.