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

To: scratchmyback who wrote (57807)	12/17/2006 2:15:02 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197700

QUALCOMM Board Mythology Scratchie, << BDAZ: Gee Lars, if it's so bad then why is Nokia etc so afraid to let the European people choose between the technologies ... It just can't be up to Nokia to decide what technologies are used in Europe! If the European Union were to favour any technology. >> Finland was the first European country to license IMT-2000 spectrum if I recall correctly and there were NO RESTRICTIONS on what ITU sanctioned 3G technology could be deployed in Finland, but NO company applied for a CDMA2000 license. Across the rest of Europe when licenses were awarded by auction or beauty contest, there was a requirement (unlike Finland) that at least one UMTS license had to be awarded, but other than that applicants could apply for the license using any one of the 5 ITU sanctioned IMT-2000 3G technologies. NO company applied for a CDMA2000 license, in any country including Hutchinson-Whampoa, who launched the original IS-95 cdmaOne network in Hong Kong in September 1995. There's still a 3G license available in France and Framce has made it abundantly clear that they'd be delighted to award it to a CDMA2000 network operator if one wants to step to the plate and make the ante others made. There are other licenses still available, and since there is a UMTS network in every EC country, and QUALCOMM and its value chain FINALLY got around to standardizing and commerciallizing CDMA2000 for the IMT-2000 core spectrum band, essentially no technology restrictions apply whatsoever. Best, - Eric -