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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 (62801)	4/19/2007 1:07:55 AM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197271

"On the other hand, China isn't an isolated country. They still trade with the rest of the world. And if they are in the habit of failing to honor others' intellectual property, their own near term successes will be short lived." The Chinese dream scenario runs something like this: 1. Delay 3G licensing until TD-SCDMA works almost as well as its competitors. (75 percent as well is just fine.) 2. Refuse to pay any royalties to any foreigners for anything to do with TD-SCDMA. Their "home-grown" technology. 3. Use political muscle to have various countries adopt TD-SCDMA as their standard. 4. These countries then pay royalties to China. But China doesn't pay royalties to anyone. 5. Flip one country at a time to TD-SCDMA, with a mixture of low royalties (say a teaser rate of 2%) and political pressure. Therefore, if TD-SCDMA can't even get to step one, it must really be a dog. - Rick