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

To: q_long who wrote (572)	7/10/2000 12:44:09 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197601

QCOM should consider reducing its royalty structure to provide more incentive to move to CDMA and CDMA2000. This would pull the rug out from under the GSM advocates, who have been arguing that GSM is the lower cost solution. In order to facilitate a rapid move toward CDMA, QCOM should have a sliding scale of royalties -- low now, and moving up gradually to a maximum point in the next several years. Those who sign up now or who are producing CDMA equipment now would get a lower rate than those who join later. There is a precedent: When MSFT decided to offer its Internet browser free. Art