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

To: LarsA who wrote (62208)	4/8/2007 3:20:26 PM
From: JeffreyHF	Respond to of 197030

Lars, most safety standards are minimum "performance", rather than "design", standards. Instead of stifling innovation by mandating one technology over another, they encourage it, setting only a floor, but no ceiling. Unlike you, though you boast of GSM`s global success over CDMA as an example, I`m content to live with the results of fair competition.(That also implies no Siemensesque slush funds, no baksheesh, and no governmental preferences, promotions, nor mandates.)GSM was good enough for voice, texting, and roaming(especially with purloined Qualcomm property), but one need only look to Japan to see what happens when WCDMA and CDMA compete head to head.Likewise for MediaFLO and DVB-H in the United States. What Vivianne Redding has recently said on that subject is reprehensible, and exposes both the true motivation behind GSM in Europe, and an intention to repeat in mobile TV. I hope she lives to regret and be force fed those words.