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To: BDAZZ who wrote (144675)	8/30/2006 9:40:55 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

And when you say QCOM was sitting on their hands evidence shows Q was getting the jump on HSDPA at this time. Seemed to me that queuecom's point was that Qualcomm had the ability to derail GPRS and EDGE with blocking IP and elected not to bother ("sitting on their hands"). My take is that it must have been a conscious decision by Mgmt. Perhaps Qualcomm felt that the transition to 3G WCDMA would be facilitated by a relatively inexpensive (and temporary) stepping stone via GPRS. My understanding was that the GPRS provided a packet layer that is necessary to WCDMA, but I could be wrong. Even if not, there still could have been some qualitative benefits-- operators getting a chance to test out data offerings to see what sticks with customers, priming the pump for demand for 3G services, etc. I'm speculating completely, of course, but I echo Slacker's statement in that I find it hard to believe that Qualcomm could be unaware that their IPR was being violated by the then emerging GPRS/ EDGE standards.