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

To: Raglanroadie who wrote (62442)	4/11/2007 4:59:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196924

RR, never mind fair, charge what the market will bear. Which doesn't necessarily mean a high price. What the market will bear might be a lower price with swarms more customers - and that is usually what it means. Monopolists almost invariably don't understand that. They usually prefer to have few customers, annoy them a lot, charge like a wounded bull and prime the customers to change to another supplier if at all possible, bear a grudge for 100 years and inform friends and family about the deranged monopolist. <considering that the devices you mentioned now have expanded wireless capabilities I do think it is fair for Q to receive payment for allowing those devices to be used in a mobile wireless fashion. > Spectrum prices weren't and are not "fair", they are what the market will bear at the time. Spectrum prices reflected the amount of money that QUALCOMM left on the table. If royalties had been higher, spectrum bids would have been lower. There is nothing 'fair' about pricing. It's either power [government dictate, economic suppression and poverty] or what the market will bear. If companies charge more than what the market will bear, that's called Globalstar pricing - bankruptcy deals with that problem. Mqurice

To: Raglanroadie who wrote (62442)	4/11/2007 5:15:58 PM
From: Peter J Hudson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196924

"Kudos to you for being such an early Q investor." My introduction th QCOM was from an investment chat group on AOL hosted by our own Art B. It's been a great ride and I believe we have arrived where the market indicated we were going in 1999. My intention is to retire on QCOM dividends. That will take regular increases for a few years! However, the go-go days are over. Q is now a tech giant. I believe it will continue to deliver solid returns for a long time. I think the MediaFlo spinoff will be the next big dividend. I am worried about our IP wars. Pete