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To: mightylakers who wrote (6442)	1/23/2001 5:26:48 PM
From: laodeng	Respond to of 197054

Qualcomm is sending a message to who? look at the comment from a company spokeswoman. Qualcomm's CDMA Patents Upheld in Korea, Europe SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Wireless communications technology company Qualcomm Inc. (NasdaqNM:QCOM - news) on Tuesday said it prevailed in three challenges to its patents in Korea and Europe, initiated by mobile phone maker Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news). Qualcomm said in two cases the Korean Intellectual Property Office upheld patents related to its proprietary CDMA (news - web sites) wireless standard. Qualcomm derives most of its revenue from licensing CDMA, which stands for Code Division Multiple Access. The patents that had been challenged in Korea related to the way that CDMA mobile phones transmit data and control the power of transmissions to overcome problems with fading and interference. Challenges to patents in the telecommunications industry have become commonplace in European and Asian markets. Qualcomm's patents have been opposed by Motorola, the No. 2 mobile phone maker, telecom equipment maker Ericsson (LMEb.ST), No.1 mobile phone maker Nokia Corp. (NYSE:NOK - news), electronics group Siemens AG (news - web sites) (SIEGn.DE) and telecommunications group Alcatel (CGEP.PA) ,a company spokeswoman said. In a Dec. 5 decision, the European Patent Office also upheld the validity of a Qualcomm's patents on a CDMA processor in a separate dispute by Motorola, the company said. ``We are pleased that our patents continue to be upheld by patent offices worldwide, demonstrating the strength and necessity of QUALCOMM's CDMA patent portfolio,'' Ben Miller, Qualcomm's chief patent strategist, said in a statement. In a separate release, Qualcomm subsidiary SnapTrack, Inc. said it had been granted a U.S. patent, which describes a way of using a computer network to locate a wireless device, such as a telephone, on a digital map or other display. Shares of Qualcomm rose $3-15/32 or 4.6 percent to $78-29/32, their highest levels in 2 weeks. Qualcomm's stock has fallen from $97-1/2 in early December, but remains higher than its 12-month low of $51-1/2 from July. dailynews.yahoo.com laodeng

To: mightylakers who wrote (6442)	1/23/2001 5:35:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197054

ML, Leap's Cricket plan is a good example of applied capacity advantage, true. They are the only one I can think of which is willing to use that capacity to give a big consumer surplus to subscribers. Most CDMA [and other] service providers [like Vodafone] are greedy pigs with absurd price plans and CDMA's cost advantage is not readily apparent. Even Leap won't compete with a company which sells CDMA Wacky Wireless. That's because when Leap is overloaded, people won't be able to get through, so what will Leap do about that? Leap will leave people without phone service or cut them off if the cell they are in suffocates and shrinks and the subscriber is at the periphery of it. People closer to the base station will retain service and those on the periphery will lose it. Such a 'service denial' approach to customers will NOT be as good as giving them cheaper prices than Leap [overall] AND never cutting them off or leaving them stranded without connection. Leap doesn't have a good low-end pricing strategy. They probably don't know that yet. Some other company with Wacky Wireless will one day eat their lunch. The silly flat-rate fantasy, which telecom marketers seem to think is sacrosanct, won't last. People want things cheap and they want them available. Wacky Wireless is the Way [also called Cat's Eyes and CURRENT PRICE IS ...]. Mqurice