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

To: kyungha who wrote (44034)	1/6/2005 4:16:18 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197407

Bill, EricL has always taken the most negative position on Mighty Q and Dr J, but usually with some reasoning. I quite like that, because I need the best critics I can get to look out for faults. If the worst EricL can come up with is a couple of months late for some MSMs and a faulty guess on the viability of EDGE [yet to be confirmed as faulty as the bleeding EDGE is still in the introductory phase], then I'm not too worried. I don't recall Dr J having anything negative to say about WiFi, though it might be that like Andrew Seybold, he has expressed the opinion that good business cases for WiFi zones are thin on the ground, or even hot-spot networks. If I'd had better critics of Globalstar, maybe I'd have been saved from a major loss. Nearly all critics were outright wrong or completely lacking in reasoned foundations for their criticisms. Geoff Goodfellow, PCStel and maybe a couple of others were the only ones who had a clue. Tero didn't really offer much other than "Die Evil Scum!" [we all knew the handsets weren't exactly pocket-sized so that wasn't exactly a revelation. Mqurice

To: kyungha who wrote (44034)	1/6/2005 3:55:06 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197407

Dr.J on WiFi ... Bill, <<I am curious that Dr.J is severely down graded of his credibility by the poster not based on the facts. >> Everyone always looks forward to his CTIA visits. He's a colorful and passionate guy, with a repeated penchant for taking any perceived competition head on there, but please take up what you are unsuccessfully attempting to represent to me as 'the facts' with the publishers and journalists that ran articles with headlines like this one from DC's Fierce Wireless Newsletter following his visit to CTIA Wireless 2003 where US carriers of all technology persuasion including Qualcomm's largest domestic customers were beginning to announce plans to supplement and complement their cellular service offerings with WiFi: >> Qualcomm CEO Jacobs Trashes Wi-Fi FierceWireless Newsletter March 19, 2003 fiercewireless.com Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs yesterday at the CTIA show in New Orleans attacked the current move by many carriers to roll out Wi-Fi access to their existing wide area networks. Jacobs pointed out Wi-Fi's limited range and the technology's lack of ubiquity and reliability. Jacobs also pointed out the recent collapse of Joltage and T-Mobile's price cuts as evidence that the hot spot market is unstable. He argued instead, as was expected, that his company's CDMA 1xrtt and its EV-DO wide area technologies were more dependable. ... <snip> << Best, - Eric -

To: kyungha who wrote (44034)	1/6/2005 10:57:46 PM
From: Jim Mullens	Respond to of 197407

Dick, Bill, whomever, Re: the Great Pretender. Generally a valuable contributor to the various wireless threads, the Great Pretender (supposed big-time QCOM investor/ yet big-time Qualcomm management basher extraordinaire / GSM- NOK apologizer) on occasion needs to get his jollies by re-hashing from his ancient archives some picayune (insignificant in the total scheme of things) comments attributed to the Q’s distinguished management. His relentless bashing will make him look even smaller in years to come when the world eventually fully recognizes Qualcomm’s monumental contributions to the betterment of mankind enabling world wide wireless communication thru their vast scientific discoveries. The Great Pretended amazes us even more so in his unabashed support for the GSM world, virtually ignoring all of their misdeeds / dispersing FUD over the years. IMO there is little equivalence between the two. Unfortunately the amplified bashing over the last few days has caused me to ignore some helpful advice I was given quite sometime back via PM. Perhaps if we just don’t respond, the lack of attention will diminish the bashing gratification and eventually the want to bash.