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To: carranza2 who wrote (22490)	5/10/2002 12:15:58 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 197015

Reportedly Samsung received a huge reduction in GSM royalty rates apx the time that NOK wanted to set up shop in S Korea and sell some NOK branded phones made under contract by a Korean manufacturer.

To: carranza2 who wrote (22490)	5/11/2002 10:00:46 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 197015

I would think that IPR from Ericsson would be insufficient to market GSM phones. Samsung began marketing GSM phones in Europe in 1998, more than 3 years before the announcement of an agreement with Erricson. See samsungelectronics.com for the press release on the October 10, 1998 first shipment, worth US $1 million, sent directly to European dealers. Samsung set up a research institute in London, in 1997, to study the European market and design GSM phones. They may have picked up IPR without putting out press releases or worked around some of it. Also some of the IPR that went into the original GSM patent pool is getting a little long in the tooth and and may no longer be relevent for modern GSM handsets. Also Samsung has IPR worth trading for. 138