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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (177)	10/30/2002 3:19:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 258

China not licensed for TD-SCDMA means they'd pay 5.5% royalty for sales in China instead of the special rate of around 2% if they use cdma2000. Message 18172347 5.5% would be the royalty rate for both local production and export [and of course they wouldn't succeed in exports, so they'd end up paying twice the royalties for the dubious pleasure of using their own TD-SCDMA nonsense]. What a joke! BUT, very profitable for trading the shares of QUALCOMM. 15 million shares today [and similar for yesterday and no doubt tomorrow] x $2 = $30 million gain for those aware of the silly TD-SCDMA idea. Here's what happened to D'oh!CoMo with their silly VW-40 [aka W-CDMA] plans. Licking their wounds and heading home... Message 18172507 TD-SCDMA will have a worse result. Mqurice