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To: samim anbarcioglu who wrote (89276)	12/6/2000 9:40:33 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

samim - ...The cross licencing with TXN is essentially a royalty agreement with NOK. NOK has to continue using TXN chips in their handsets, because all their application software assumes a TXN chip. QCOM API is of course different. But by using TXN chips, NOK overcomes this problem, and sells CDMA phones all over the world, QCOM collects royalty.... Who do they collect it from? Do both TXN and NOK have a license requirement, or does the TXN cross-license flow through to its customers? How and to what extent does QCOM benefit from the TXN agreement? TIA, Don