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

To: Eric L who wrote (60869)	3/9/2007 5:50:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196972

EricL, what we have witnessed for a decade is the difference between what the Globalstar-style telecom marketers think their products and services are worth and what regular humans think they are worth. I can afford to buy a super duper smart phone. I would like to own one, even though I wouldn't use it all that much, because I love CDMA and when one wants something suddenly, unexpectedly, one can want it very much indeed. But I can't bring myself to pay the absurdly extorquerationate service charges wanted by Telecom, Vodafone and anyone else who fancies themselves as a "telecom marketer". It's the old story that people would rather do without than be "insulted", held hostage etc. There is also a nomenclature difference and I note that you were kind enough to recognize that I use "CDMA" to mean anything using a CDMA air interface. GSM means, to me, not some artifact hardware upstream, but the TDMA air interface designed by Groupe Speciale Mobile aka Global System for Mobile communications, or 3GSM, or GSM upgraded to GPRS or EDGE, using intellectual property stolen from QCOM. GSM is holding on because talking on a phone and using text messaging is the main thing people want to do over the air interface and GSM is cheaper than other things. But the trend is gradually gaining ground and CDMA is making more and more money and getting more and more customers. Mqurice