Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Microcap & Penny Stocks : Globalstar Telecommunications Limited GSAT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pcstel who wrote (22971)	4/6/2001 8:50:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29986

PCSTEL, I am going to adopt my cynical self, which has served me much better than my 'Globalstar will get it right' trusting posture of recent years. Therefore, I believe IDCC, NTT, Nokia, Ericsson, Vodafone, the European governments and others are in a vast conspiracy to 'get' QUALCOMM and cdma2000. There does not need to be any discussion to mount such a conspiracy - common interest of those parties and Occam's Razor weburbia.com are good enough for us to explain what goes on. Common interest was sufficient to form the Standard Oil Trust monopoly and that made a LOT of money for the members. OPEC is trying the same deal [doomed to failure in the long run]. Just which IDCC patent licence has been agreed and at what price? Perhaps it is for a bell or whistle which is in the NTT Version 1.0 [gamma - not beta] of W-CDMA but not central to function of W-CDMA. QUALCOMM could produce a W-CDMA without a couple of NTT bells and whistles. If the patent was needed by NTT, why did they leave it until a month before their W-CDMA launch to get the necessary licence? That seems a bit risky for a key component. The price could have gone up very high! Though there might have prior agreements in the development of W-CDMA fixing the terms of any licence given by IDCC. Maybe it's a strategic licence to make it seem that QUALCOMM is in a spot of trouble with their IPR and should get with the programme and give their property away to the greedy VW-40 cartel. I don't believe there is any undisclosed agreement with IDCC other than the original settlement when IDCC held Q! over a litigation barrel and Q! decided to give them some money in the interests of removing doubts of their customers and to avoid delays in CDMA development. That was before W-40 was dreamed up as a way of 'getting' Q!. I am going to continue to ignore IDCC [they seem to have some WLL B-CDMA patents but those are irrelevant to QUALCOMM's W-CDMA and cdma2000 efforts as far as I can tell]. My guess is that Matsushita bought a bell or a whistle. Q! has better bells and whistles than IDCC but NTT and co want their very own bells and whistles. Ericsson has announced plans to ditch making Globalstar phones as part of their withdrawal from handsets. That's good because it means QUALCOMM will have the whole Globalstar market which will be 10s of millions of handsets [unfortunately they will be sold when my shareholding in Globalstar is zero or negligible after the restructuring]. QUALCOMM is going to have a LOT of fun with Globalstar. They are going to make a LOT of money with Globalstar. Meanwhile, this market is a LOT of fun. I don't think I have had so much fun since the Zenit pranged in Siberia. My knuckles are white, I feel queasy and if you want your lawn mowed, I'm charging only $5 an hour [or 3 loaves of bread]. Mqurice [sorry, but I don't know enough to give informed comment on IDCC and their stuff - the above is my story and I think it's about right]