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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (69147)	9/24/2007 5:57:41 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

I wonder. Anyway I picked this up from: sramanamitra.com I wonder if he's right? Does Qualcom get tons of royalty from the asian CDMA networks and cell phones? Seems like asia's the only region we'll see iPhones with CDMA/WCDMA in the next 5-years. iPhone and the Future of AT&T Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Related Contents In my recent iPhone series, I touched a lot of nerves when I said that Apple might drive the industry towards a global standard, and that standard might be GSM. USA Today reports: “AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years — an eternity in the go-go cellphone world. And Apple is barred for that time from developing a version of the iPhone for CDMA wireless networks. That ban is no small thing. AT&T rivals Verizon Wireless and Sprint are both CDMA shops. AT&T uses GSM, a global standard incompatible with CDMA. Bottom line: If you want an iPhone anytime soon, you’ll have to take your business to AT&T.” Wow! I was thinking that Apple would go for market share, and also develop a CDMA phone to work with Verizon … but no, looks like they’re locked in the arms of AT&T for a while! Of course, Verizon will work with a different vendor for its own “laptop replacement device“, but AT&T surely looks like the sole beneficiary of Apple’s magnificent PR machine at work. No wonder, they’re using the iPhone launch as their rebranding campaign from Cingular to AT&T! It also means that Qualcomm will not benefit from the iPhone anytime soon.