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To: RetiredNow who wrote (66649)	11/30/2004 6:02:12 PM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

re "but the point is you agree that China holds up the use of QCOM's technology so they can use their own standard. In that respect, China plays most unfairly. " mindmeld, QCOM owns IPR on CDMA2000, WCDMA, and China's "home-grown" TD-SCDMA. All non-Chinese handset manufacturers pay royalties sold into China at QCOM's "standard rate". Chinese manufacturers are similarly licensed for CDMA2000, although at more favorable royalty rates for handsets sold into the domestic market. Chinese manufacturers are also licensed for WCDMA at the standard rate. AFAIK no licenses yet exist for TD-SCDMA, buy commercial units don't exist yet either. I think their are some 18 licensed Chinese manufacturers including heavyweights Huawei and ZTE. Whether Qualcomm can repatriate the royalty dollars from China is another matter, however. Ron