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

To: Theophile who wrote (8717)	3/18/2001 5:43:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 196537

GG is off his trolley: <"Qualcomm’s Irwin Jacobs should take heed lest his company’s overly aggressive stance on rights and royalties drives innovation into competitive technologies like OFDM and LinkAir’s LAS- CDMA. By charging less, Qualcomm would gain more, by eliminating the incentive to spend years on things that have marginal performance benefits but which confuse and tempt potential Qualcomm customers."> There is zero evidence that QUALCOMM's derisory royalty is causing even the slightest hindrance to CDMA development. GG doesn't understand it [one of you subscribers to his publication should tell him to come here and I'll explain it to him] but the spectrum auctions in Europe, USA and Australia [and elsewhere] have demonstrated exactly how much QUALCOMM has left on the table with their excessively low royalty rates. If the 3G royalty rates had been charged at exactly the correct amount for each country, the auction prices would have been the cost of the auction plus a 15% return on the cost of carrying out those auctions [even governments should get a return on their investments]. Go on! Somebody who subscribes demand that GG [not Geoff Goodfellow, Geoge Gotch or the GSM Guild etc] come over here and answer the criticism of his wacky idea! I have to call it a wacky idea because his suggestion is sort of like the Wacky Wireless idea but he has misunderstood it. You don't always get more money by charging less. We would in the case of Globalstar and Motorola's Dynamic Realtime Pricing displayed on the handset patent is the way to really make a lot of money on Globalstar and fill the constellation quickly. Meanwhile, WIA GG. Mqurice PS: WIA = Welcome In Advance [a new internet expression = a kind of Welcome mat at the front door.