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

To: Jim Mullens who wrote (62929)	4/20/2007 5:33:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197653

Jim, yes indeed, QCOM is tops on so many measures. I didn't give them all my money because I thought there was anything better around. But they could say what the royalty rate is. Is it 5%? 5.5% less discounts for patent swaps? 4% for CDMA2000 but 5% for W-CDMA? How much for TD-SCDMA? OFDM? What exactly was the Made in China royalty deal? That made Koreans angry - if it was all open and straight, they wouldn't need to be angry and they could more reasonably be told to quit whining like a fleet of 747s. I don't think I should do complicated spread sheet analysing to reverse engineer the 'standard' royalty rate. If information doesn't have to be confidential for good reason, make it public. By "good reason" I don't mean "because we feel like it". Mqurice