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To: iggyl who wrote (2719)	12/6/2002 11:01:02 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 9255

re: Nokia 1xRTT in China iggyl, << Does Qualcomm's low royalty agreement with China have a provision that Q's chips be used exclusively? >> Yes it does. However, I am honestly not sure how that is applied. Obviously to take advantage of the licensing terms and qualify for the special domestic rate a manufacturer has to use exclusively Qualcomm chips. Do all licensed manufacturers (Nokia isn't yet licensed but they evidently have application in bureaucratic process) have to use Qualcomm chips? I don't think so, but I'm not sure. << Is Nokia using their own or Qs chips for any phones sold in China? >> Currently they are using chips of their own design but currently they are not manufacturing cdma phones. Will their 1xRTT phones use their own design or Qualcomm's I can't say. I would assume their own, but really don't know and that would of course depend somewhat on answers above - that I can't definitively answer. I also do not know whether or not their recently released 1xRTT "folder" for Korea uses their own chip or one that is sourced from Qualcomm through Telson. - Eric -