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

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (62522)	4/12/2007 2:59:19 PM
From: estatemakr	Respond to of 196964

"....convinced that Nokia is already defeated....." Wholeheartedly agree with you Art. Lately it's a case of "open mouth and insert foot" for the NOK camp. Would not be surprised to see the NOK BOD have to step in and clean house in order for them to save face....... Honestly, can they dig themselves a hole any deeper??

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (62522)	4/12/2007 4:20:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196964

NO. QUALCOMM should charge MORE. Neither is there any reason for "quantity" discounts because other than ease of measuring and collecting the royalties, which is trivial, it's not like a manufactured product where there are many economies of scale with big orders. <One thing for sure, though, is that QCOM MUST demand the same royalty rate (subject to quantity discounts, perhaps) as that paid by other licensees, > Also, QUALCOMM should charge MORE to Nokia because Nokia is such a pain to deal with and they have ability to pay because of their huge economies of scale which resulted from their GSM swindles and W-CDMA rorts. Charging MORE to Nokia is Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory as that ensures no discrimination against smaller licensees who have trouble competing with Nokia's economies of scale, legal thugs, patent-swapping advantages and political backing. Giving a volume discount to Nokia would be highly discriminatory against small licensees. It would be unfair and also unreasonable. Nokia should pay a $2 billion upfront fee just to get off the starting blocks. Use Nokia's own patent charging technique. 1% for one patent, 2% for 2 to 5 etc... 5% for 5 to 10, 7% for 10 to 15 ... etc ... that's the sort of volume discount I could live with for Nokia. Mqurice.