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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (6378)	7/29/2003 6:07:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12229

M, they agreed that QUALCOMM royalties were too low when they bid $100bn for spectrum in Europe. They don't admit that, but that's the logical conclusion from the size of the bids. The bidders added up their costs, including royalties on CDMA equipment, handset costs, hardware, fibre to deliver calls, buildings, photocopiers, marketing and operations and all the other things which it takes to deliver mobile cyberspace. Then they estimated their revenues for the W-CDMA services they expected to offer. Did some discounted cash flow spreadsheet stuff to allow for delays. Added profit they expected. Which gave them how much they could afford to bid for spectrum to leave the desired profit level. They made a few mistakes. How long it would take to deliver W-CMDA was longer than they thought. Market demand was less than they thought. They overbid. If the auctions were held again now, the price would be lower. But still very high. Just as in the C-Block auction way back in 1996 which NextWave won a lot of and nearly everyone [except me and presumably they] thought they'd paid too much for. But the subsequent wranglings and re-auction bids showed the bids were actually low. Mqurice

To: Neeka who wrote (6378)	8/2/2003 1:34:32 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 12229

NYT article on weird cat killings, mutilations. August 1, 2003 Wildlife Blamed for Colo. Cat Killings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:53 p.m. ET AURORA, Colo. (AP) -- Colorado authorities on Friday blamed 45 Denver-area cat slayings in the past year on wildlife, ending weeks of suspicion that budding psychopaths were killing the pets. Utah authorities came to a similar conclusion earlier this week in the deaths of nearly a dozen cats in the Salt Lake City area. ``All of the deaths were caused by predators,'' police Chief Ricky Bennett said in suburban Aurora, where 29 cases were reported. Animal control officers had said some of the cats were sliced with surgical precision. Wildlife experts later used microscopes on the dead cats and found that what appeared to be clean cuts by a scalpel were actually rips in the skin. Urban Wildlife Rescue director Jack Murphy, who helped in the case, said 45 was not an unusual number of cat deaths in a year. Bennett said reports that 11 cats had been mutilated in Salt Lake City since May 2002 probably fueled fears of human culprits in Denver. Officials said this week that foxes were behind the Utah deaths. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company.