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To: KyrosL who wrote (7941)	8/29/2001 2:33:32 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

As a Qultist, I feel compelled to correct this bit of error: PS. And I didn't even mention what will happen when the basic QCOM patents expire in not too many years. The Q has found a way around patent expiration problems. It sells its patents as a package so that the same rate and amount apply if a company uses only one or all of them. It has been able to do so because all of its patents are equally valuable. As a result, it gets the same deal from everybody and, unless something drastic takes place, will continue to get that deal. Its technology is so ahead of the game it can successfully make "take it or leave it" demands.

To: KyrosL who wrote (7941)	8/29/2001 3:31:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Kyros, you are right that initially those things you mentioned all give mobile phones a disadvantage. But ironically, those actually make CDMA phones even more desirable. That's because people make phone calls according to the price they are charged. Leap Wireless for example has made calls so cheap that people don't bother with a home phone. It becomes too inconvenient and expensive to stand up, walk to the phone, answer it, find it's not for you, call the person it is for, go and sit down again [or take a message for the person who it was for but isn't there]. It is much easier and even cheaper [since people have mobile phones anyway] to dump the home phone and go all mobile, even if sitting in the living room, very immobile. Yes, a Bluetooth or 90211 or OFDM connection would be faster and that would perhaps be the link in many circumstances. But that would still leave enough calls for mobile CDMA to handle. People do NOT like sitting at a computer if they don't have to. It will be years before people buy a new computer and put a LAN in it or Bluetooth chip or 90211 and meanwhile, they'll use their mobile phone to talk [rather than their computer - which I have never bothered to use as a phone even though I'm a wacko computer user; don't forget, half the population doesn't have a computer anyway and the first and only one they'll have will be a mobile one]. When the last mile to the mobile phone is cheap enough, the fibresphere will make calls to anywhere so cheap that people will use their cellphone with impunity. At the moment, mobile minutes are still $18 an hour [and more] so it's still cheaper to call from a landline, so people do. But when mobile is $1 an hour, including long distance, people will just use their mobile phone for all calls, including a lot of reading of internet stuff on a tablet A4-sized notebook. Everyone will want one. Even in a recession. They'll cut other expenditure before they cut communications That's my theory, Mq