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To: Cooters who wrote (88714)	12/2/2000 7:12:32 PM
From: ehopper	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

One lisence for all is not quite true. For example, if you use QCT's chips (e.g. MSM5x00) you pay for cost associated with all of the IPR inside the chip (GPS, BT, etc..) and the standard "CDMA" royalty PLUS chipset costs. If however you do your own chips you only pay royalties based on the IPR being used and covered by the relevant patents. This was part of the agreement that allowed QCT's technology to be standardized or their patents would be considered "unreasonable" and hence would have never been standardized. So for WCDMA - do your own solution and minimise the IPR you use (above and beyond the standard CDMA) and you pay less to QCT unless you use SPINCO's chipsets which incorporate their IPR or use a design approachthat copies SPINCO. Now for many the SPINCO chipset may be simpler to use than trying to go out on your own. However Texas Instruments and Intel are moving into the WCDMA arena as well so their cost competitiveness may put SPINCO at risk.