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To: Puck who wrote (115)11/30/2000 11:32:15 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9255
 
This theory was brought sometime ago concerning the infrastructure (yes, alright it was me). Royalties are based on a percentage sale, but a percentage sale of what. How far to the RF components can a supplier legitimately call not a CDMA network. The RF part is not exactly the major component here. A supplier could sell in packages and the last remaining 'package' being the CDMA interface which they sell at cost.

Anyway, it really doesn't matter anymore as we progress to an economy of scale that means the royalties for whatever will be small enough to be of little consequence to the overall cost.



To: Puck who wrote (115)11/30/2000 12:27:26 PM
From: LarsA  Respond to of 9255
 
Puck, the B part could also be made by someone else e.g. Casio -would they have to pay a license fee to QCOM? Can't be possible. I can see where if you want license from QCOM, you have to sign a contract with many conditions but I have not read any about this. Since Bluetooth is an open standard any company would be able to manufacture the B part without paying QCOM since it's not clear what the A part is -it could just as well be GSM or GPRS -it's independent.


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