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To: LarsA who wrote (117684)	4/30/2002 2:27:16 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 152472

Telecom Competition in China Turns Violent And we thought Euros were bad (ggggggggggggg) China Government Steps In as Telecom Competition Turns Violent BEIJING -- China 's telecom regulator has launched a crackdown on telecom- company employees who commit criminal attacks against competing operators. The move follows reports of an incident in Suining, Sichuan province, where China Telecommunications Group employees broke into the facilities of competitor China United Telecommunications Corp. and ripped out phone cables. The damage caused some China Unicom customers to lose service for about eight hours April 12 , and was shortly followed by a China Telecom sales call to those customers, according to local news reports. Similar localized incidents of violence and destruction of property have also been reported among firms in the oil and cable-television industries, highlighting the sometimes lawless nature of market competition in areas outside of China 's most developed cities. "The ministry and local telecommunications authorities recently have continuously been receiving reports that telecom operators in some areas are ... breaking off communication between telecom networks," the Ministry of Information Industry said in a notice dated April 18 . It called those "illegal and criminal actions" and said violators would be prosecuted. All major breaks in service now have to be reported to the ministry in Beijing as well as to local authorities, it said. The ministry called on telecom companies to educate employees at their local units to ensure they "correctly understand the competitive relationship between telecom operators and strictly abide by the laws and regulations of the nation." Though all six of China 's major telecom companies are owned by the government, reforms in recent years mean they operate with an increasing degree of commercial independence - especially at small local branches far from headquarters. The ministry's notice was addressed to all six telecom operators, and didn't refer to any specific incident. China United Telecommunications is the parent company of Hong Kong and New York -listed China Unicom Ltd. (CHU).

To: LarsA who wrote (117684)	4/30/2002 2:41:05 PM
From: Kayaker	Respond to of 152472

if NOK need, say, just a few of the patents, while another co may need all of them - how can you charge the same and still offer them at a fair and equal basis, or whatever the rule is? Qualcomm doesn't charge on any kind of "per patent" basis. The policy is (and has always been as far as I know), whether you need 1 patent or 100, the rate is the same.

To: LarsA who wrote (117684)	4/30/2002 3:00:35 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Respond to of 152472

Lars: I don't know the answer to your question, except to surmise that it would create a real rat's nest of a mess if each and every licensee was on a different scale depending on what patents they used in one product or another. There's enough noise right now about different royalty rates - e.g. China and Korea rates for domestic/export sales - so I hate to think what it would be like with some kind of "a la carte" menu. I guess if you're the owner of the only restaurant in town, plus the chef to boot, you get to set the "fixed price" menu and tell the customers to take it and eat or leave it and go hungry. <g> David T.