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To: Clarksterh who wrote (144647)	8/29/2006 12:27:48 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Do you have a pointer to an actual Q declaration to ETSI for GSM? I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but here is a direct link to some of the patents that Qualcomm has declared essential for GSM. The notation about abiding by the ETSI IPR policy is listed on all of the declared patents. tinyurl.com There is something odd about this. Why would they FRAND for a standard where ETSI has no leverage over Q? Was it in relation only to their use with UMTS? That is a good question. I dont know what the upside would be unless they were required to do so, and if that is the case, we get back to the issue of timing. FWIW, I just did a search for Qualcomm and GERAN on the ETSI site....it looks like Qualcomm has a made a few contributions over the years. tinyurl.com Slacker

To: Clarksterh who wrote (144647)	8/29/2006 12:58:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

It makes sense for QCOM to encourage W-CDMA, so they might as well throw GSM patents in with the rest. That encourages multimode devices, which might largely be used in GSM mode anyway. So QCOM would gain and ease the change away from standalone GSM/GPRS/EDGE. But QCOM has to kill standalone GSM as fast as possible, not give away the rope with which to hang QCOM. If W-CDMA is expensive, and GSM is cheap, that would slow the change to W-CDMA. GSM needs to be crunched and royalties demanded of everyone if QCOM is entitled to them. It seems to have been a truly huge blunder to have let the GSM Guild get away with it. No wonder GSM has held the line for years after it should have been toast. Mqurice