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

To: mightylakers who wrote (4443)	11/9/2000 10:52:15 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 197073

Do you think the Snaptrack royalty is bundled into the CDMA royalty? I'm trying to figure out if this announcement means that handset manufacturers (NOK/MOT) who dont use Q's chipset will have to incorporate Snaptrack into phones which are sold to PCS. If yes, then I assume the royalty rate goes up....if no, then how are NOK/MOT going to offer position-location based services on their phones? Hmmm...this seems a little complicated. If I assume that Verizon picks another technology, would handsets which go to Verizon have to be different than those which go to PCS? Slacker

To: mightylakers who wrote (4443)	11/9/2000 10:55:02 AM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 197073

The e911 mandate is the whole reason for the near term migration of Bellsouth and Nextel to 1X. As long as they are going to have to introduce GPS by federal mandate, they may as well get the best possible data solutions. Since this is going to increase the capacity requirement for the wireless networks, they may as well go with 1X rather than EDGE. Hell, MOT is one of the biggest fans fo 1X these days. since they own Nextel, there is no way they are going to waste their time with EDGE. MOT knows the truth now. There is no reason for them to support the inferior technologies of it's european counterparts any longer. Game, Set, Match Checkmate