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To: carranza2 who wrote (10546)	4/13/2001 4:15:51 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 34857

The history of standards and operators living with these standards is littered with companies trying to cash on equipment which isn't compatible. This includes those trying to infect the standard with patents. The QCOM trick of SpinCO is exactly what the operators are most pixxed about, the global, fat cat, tax collector and the independent no-nothing village idiot. Basic fact is that it is the operators who bring in the money, cent and penny, minute by minute, end user by end user, contract by contract.. Few, if any, operators would not agree that something like QCOM (disruptive technologies) should not happen again, and SpinCo is a joke. It is one thing to collect patent licenses as a constructive organization for the carriers, another thing to try to limit their bussines decisions and on top of it try to collect a tax on it. And a third thing to trust that US must have a seat at the table of global telecommunication. Thats the Q-fly in the global ointment, the closing window between GPRS and 4G. Ilmarinen. P.S. No need to remember the Motorola brigade of lawyers of the 80s.