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

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (62445)	4/11/2007 5:12:15 PM
From: manalagi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196947

Nokia claims that the royalty paid is no more than 3% while QCOM stated to be 3% or more. Since the agreement is confidential, is the royalty rate is based on percentage and capped by dollar amount? Let us take the case of Apple I-phone which will be selling around $ 500 each. Will the percentage remain the same? I don't think QCOM's website indicates a maximum dollar amount. I believe you smartly address this issue by an example of expanding a phone into some vehicle which presumably be selling for thousands of dollars. If we were at other side, would we be willing to pay percentage with no ceiling? Is this the crux of the disagreement between NOK and QCOM?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (62445)	4/12/2007 1:27:20 AM
From: Raglanroadie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196947

No need to convince me I am in total agreement. Please excuse my use of the word fair by all means. I remember times as a child we would complain to our dad that something was not fair only to hear the standard reply that fair is the weather report. Life is not fair and it is best if we don't expect it to be. Why can't Q simply state that in order to break in to the market they under priced the CDMA standard at 5% in order to gain traction and that 5% on WCDMA in no way reflects upon CDMA2000?