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To: BDAZZ who wrote (62641)	4/13/2007 8:15:40 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 197214

when I stopped laughing after falling off my chair.......I responded.... that should have been posted on April 1st. Out of benovolence they were trying to protect Qualcomm from the predators buying up the company? Yea, this is why the TWO SR VPs of Ericson were at a Radio conference in boston (IEEE technical sympoisum) Standing up at the back of the room, shouting me down saying "It is a FRAUD, will NEVER WORK" while I presented a paper on a chip I had already delivered 5000 of into working phones? I must have missed the guy in the back with the hugh checkbook sticking out of his pants just waiting to jump me and other execs at the meeting. SheesH!! and I thought Loch Ness was a joke...

To: BDAZZ who wrote (62641)	4/13/2007 9:02:02 PM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 197214

Since your profile shows you joined SI in 2005, you obviously have little knowledge of history. It's not a myth. The EU cabal claimed Dr. J. was lying and cdma would never work. Then it claimed it's technology could perform better. Then it instituted lawsuits and Euro regs to keep cdma out. It then tried to develop UMTS but couldn't get its technology to work without Qualcomm bailing it out, so they resorted to more lies. It's been like that since 1995. None of the prognostications of Ericsson or Nokia about either their ability to develop superior technology or better performance have proven true.

To: BDAZZ who wrote (62641)	4/14/2007 12:18:51 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 197214

Re : "which SI message board discussed old anti-Qualcomm lies" ..................... (I think this is what you were asking (?)) We used to have only the "Coming Into Buy Range" one. (Since then ... re-named simply "Qualcomm Incorporated.") Then, when that board got too clogged up with some silly stuff (from people such as me (!)), there was : "The New Qualcomm - a S&P500 company." Then, there was the one we are "on" right now. Jon.

To: BDAZZ who wrote (62641)	4/14/2007 1:18:14 AM
From: Rick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197214

An oldie but goodie, coming in at number 9 on this thread. From 09/16/1996: Jacobs's Patter: An Inventor's Promise Has Companies Taking Big Cellular Gamble --- Qualcomm Boss's Innovation In Digital-Phone System Is Problematic -- and Late --- Are Claims Hope or Hype? ---- By Quentin Hardy Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal "....CDMA is the long-term solution for the cellular industry," says Dr. Jacobs, whose personal fortune as Qualcomm's biggest shareholder has grown to an estimated $150 million with the rise of the company. A lot rides on whether Dr. Jacobs is right. His dazzling promises for CDMA -- coming from a famed scientist who won a National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1994 --steered many companies away from an already-established global standard widespread in Europe and Asia. Yet CDMA is more than three years late in coming to market, and it isn't clear it works any better than the existing standard. Dr. Jacobs is blamed by some experts for single-handedly putting the U.S. far behind in the global wireless-communications business, which analysts expect to be a $100 billion market within five years. There is also a worst-case possibility: that CDMA doesn't work on the massive scale required, an outcome that would inflict billions of dollars of losses on the equipment makers and network operators that have bought into Dr. Jacobs's promises. That would cause more delays in the spread of digital-wireless phones in the U.S.; there are 16 million digital phones in Europe, compared with about 1.5 million in the U.S. "They've got fundamental technical problems that they don't know how to solve," says Don Cox, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. "There is no one in the business smarter than Irwin Jacobs, but smart guys make mistakes too." George Schmitt, president of Omnipoint Communications Inc. of Mountain Lakes, N.J., and a former chief executive of wireless giant PrimeCo Personal Communicatios LP of Westlake, Texas, says Dr. Jacobs "sold the market a lot more than he delivered." - Rick