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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: slacker711 who wrote (38995)	1/28/2004 1:50:22 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197032

... really dont see GSM/1x chipset sales as being much more than a small drop in Qualcomm's large bucket of sales. Multimode GSM/1Xrtt handsets may offer very little to the typical GSM subscriber, but they would be VERY attractive to CDMA subscribers, a vast majority of which would jump at the chance to gain access to the global roaming capabilities of GSM for a 10% incremental cost, IMO. Personally, I would love to use my Sprint phone overseas instead of my AT&T one. It would perhaps be a zero sum game for QCOM, but for CDMA operators, it would level the playing, taking away one of the biggest advantages of GSM. Hopefully, Sprint and VZ recognize this and make a push to offer multimode handsets, although they have always been laggards in roaming, even among their CDMA brethren internationally.