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

To: Raymond who wrote (62195)	4/8/2007 5:28:08 AM
From: Raglanroadie	Respond to of 197016

We don't choose standards on this side of the moat the market does. Companies raise the capital, buy the spectrum, and roll out the network they think will help them succeed. AT&T is the largest wireless provider in the U.S. and yet it chose TDMA, GSM, WCDMA/HSPA. What choice did the carriers in Europe have? Before you point to the AT&T example cited above please note that their chosen technology had a protected market in which it could more quickly gain economies of scale. With respect to the rest of the world it is common knowledge that U.S. companies are held to a higher standard of ethics with respect to $$favors$$. Only now are the Germans concerned about slush funds after billions were secured.

To: Raymond who wrote (62195)	4/8/2007 8:39:23 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197016

Name one non-american technology that has been accepted as a dominating standard in the US. Video Home System (VHS) --Mike Buckley

To: Raymond who wrote (62195)	4/8/2007 11:04:51 AM
From: DanD	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197016

Name one non-american technology that has been accepted as a dominating standard in the US. Why don't you name ONE government mandated product standard in the U.S.? For a product that was not a public utility such as electricity or telephone. Use as your guide the number of Government mandated standards in Europe. If they mandated it, you can't include it in your list. I know you can't count cell-phones amongst them. While you do that, I'm gonna go play with my new Korean phone. Dan D.

To: Raymond who wrote (62195)	4/8/2007 8:33:57 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197016

you may spend time on it , but your posts show your ignorance. I spend my time TODAY doing techncal stuff, 12 hours a day. But unlike you and ERIC who do the stuff from reading PR sheets and reading books, I have spent many years sitting in the room when the political BS stuff comes down. I have spent alot of time seeing just how manipulative the GSM and US TDMA crowd was back then and what they were posting. I spent alot of time examining the 3x time slots in US TDMA that was misdesigned using not enough preable so that he training filters would not lock up, so they had to go to 2 slots to add more taining sequence to get it right, but refused to reduce the published thruput rates on USTDMA. FRAUD? I spent alot of time working on the Vocoder demos with Paul Jacobs (yep the one and the same) and we were continually assiled with the same old tired BS you publised on this thread. Sure the Vocoder is better, but at the SAME BER, they are FAR differnt. (I notice you can't even spell BER right....sure you work on this stuff?) You bringing it back as a one sided BS blast is not meaningful. I am angry at the STandford professor who publish total blather. I am angry at the Ericson VP guys who stood at the back of the room at a TECHNICAL IEEE presentation and attempted to shout me down as the chip, which I was reporting on RESULTS would never work. I am angry at teh WSJ who published jacobs PATTER in 1995 in which they said that CDMA was a toal lie. I am angry at an EU protectionist group who can't win by designing the better thing, but by excluding the better thing sot hat they can win. Using the colurts to make up for their own inadequacies. I an angry at an old friend who asked me to pay him $30k so that he would NOT write a hit peice on Qualcomm about 8 years ago, and told me outright that this was what he was getting at the time to write them. But then, perhaps it is just me... Take your BS and go back to where you came from.

To: Raymond who wrote (62195)	4/9/2007 8:43:58 PM
From: masa	Respond to of 197016

"Engineer! Why are you always so angry?" Even though this was not to me, I found this actually interesting. So: I try to avoid posting anything here, even though I am lurking here all the time. But if I get angry enough, I can't help. So if you hear about me, I must be angry. Usually I am not angry, and don't post anything. But I realize that posting only when I am angry means that you see me as an angry guy (was that complicated enough?). That is not true. So: for a long time, I posted something here without being mad. But probably this is an exception.