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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 (62796)	4/18/2007 6:44:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197270

Lars, the reason they all have the "CDMA" in them is because the issue is the air interface. Calling a CDMA air interface GSM doesn't make it a TDMA air interface. Calling it analogue would be better still because analogue royalties have long-expired so no royalties would be due if 3GSM was called analogue. To differentiate from actual old analogue, it could be called Ganalogue, which is obviously not CDMA and QCOM didn't invent Ganalogue. Or Ganalog. It's not the name, it's the patents. 3GSM is not GSM in the air interface. But there are legacy GSM components attached upstream. I think you know that. Naming an air interface by some legacy upstream components is silly. Mqurice