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To: Dexter Lives On who wrote (131692)	11/4/2003 9:54:38 AM
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Read it and weep Rob - why don't you take just a few seconds everyday to do just little bit of DD. Qualcomm, Siemens Ink Deal By Peggy Albright September 2, 2002 c 2003, Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. Qualcomm says it has all the major CDMA infrastructure deals it wants now that it has nailed down a cross-licensing agreement with Germany's Siemens. The San Diego-based CDMA company says Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group has licensed the rights to make and sell infrastructure equipment for all CDMA standards, including the second-generation technology, IS-95, and the alphabet-soup of CDMA based 3G technologies, including CDMA2000, CDMA2000 1XEV-DO, wideband-CDMA and TD-SCDMA. The deal also allows Siemens to make and sell handsets for W-CDMA. In return, Qualcomm receives the right to make and sell CDMA components, including multi-mode chipsets that use Siemens' patents for W-CDMA and other technologies, such as TD-SCDMA, the 3G technology Siemens helped develop for China. The deal is a modification of a previous agreement between the two companies, which granted Siemens the rights to use Qualcomm technology for IS-95 handsets only. "[Siemens] really was the last major wireless telecom equipment manufacturer that had not signed a deal with us," says Lou Lupin, senior vice president and general counsel for Qualcomm. Licensing CDMA from the technology's inventor, Qualcomm, has been difficult to swallow for many companies, particularly European ones, and the refusal of many companies in that region to do so is the main reason the world now has two similar but incompatible technologies, W-CDMA and CDMA2000. Nokia, which was reluctant to sign a licensing deal with Qualcomm, did so last year. Alcatel, another infrastructure vendor, formed an agreement with Qualcomm a month ago. "For us, this is all about W-CDMA. This is the only part of this agreement that we're going to be focused on," says Jacob Rice, senior manager of public relations strategy and marketing at Siemens. Rice's statement reflects his company's focus on that technology for its 3G bread and butter. The company has avoided getting into the CDMA2000 business. Siemens is a major infrastructure supplier for W-CDMA, listing companies such as Hutchison Whampoa Group, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom as customers. Its groundbreaking W-CDMA system in the U.K.'s Isle of Man, for example, was one of the earliest W-CDMA systems deployed in the world and was built during the negotiation period. But it is a very small system and was not sizable enough to provoke a licensing issue between the two companies, Lupin says. "It wasn't something that was going to be a huge bone of contention between us," he says.