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To: slacker711 who wrote (143278)	7/4/2006 3:34:19 PM
From: Jim Mullens	Respond to of 152472

Slacker, Re: SIM cards – interesting discussion (among many today!!) Simply put, Qualcomm made a mistake in their decision not to widely support SIM (or R-UIM) cards. A SIM card allows a person to have multiple handsets on a single contract....what could be better than that for Q's business model? Sounds like SIM cards are very beneficial to the user, and to the equipment makers (and would have driven more QCOM chipset /.handset sales) . Qualcomm, on many occasions, has stated one of their major objectives is customer support. Perhaps wrt SIM cards, the customer (carriers) did not want handsets with SIM capability for several of the prior discussed reasons.