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To: brian h who wrote (1731)	10/28/2005 10:43:47 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218215

I agree 200% with what I wrote! Here's why: Between 1994 and 2001 royalties were not a problem because the mobile device was sold at a higher price. Now the bulk of the mobile phones are sold in energing markets. The emerging markets (the God Forsaken places that I wrote in that posting) are carrying this industry. it is not in Bethesda, MA, or in Stuttgart where the gorwth is: It is in the God Forsaken places. Now they are doing a Lula: "We can't keep this industry alive if we pay that price for the royalties". Should we negotiate? We are charging very little to the mobile phones for the Nigerians, Indonesias, Banglas, Indians, Chinese, Iraqis, Iranians... Goverments have to drop taxes, royalties should be deflated, and so that the consumer gets the phones they can afford. Looks like the galaxy analogy of my previous posting... Now if you threaten the life of someone by killing him by denying the medicine, (in this case the code or the chip) they start thinking about unorthodox ways of negotiating... Lula did, the phone makers are doing it too. Same thing. Look to the oil industry shooting themselves in their foot. Governments don't ant to stop milking gasoline for taxes, refiners don't want to build more refineriees, emabargoed countries are not opening up to invest in exploration... Which give is the opportunity to sell ethanol and biodiesel...