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

To: J Langholtz who wrote (56527)	11/1/2006 10:23:53 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196775

QUALCOMM is not Microsoft. Microsoft was a true monopoly that also engaged in anti-competitive business practices, and for that they got kicked by the Europeans. Despite the efforts of Nokia to make QUALCOMM look like a monopolist, that's hardly the case when QCOM doesn't make any CDMA phones, nor is it the only manufacturer of CDMA/CDMA2000/WCDMA chips. The differences between QCOM and MSFT are only too transparent--even for the Europeans to lump them together. Art