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

To: voop who wrote (71464)	11/22/2007 9:42:15 PM
From: JeffreyHF	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 197307

Don't both UMB and LTE utilize OFDMA? What you are alluding to has nothing to do with CDMA versus GSM, but rather it relates to OFDMA choices for new networks to be adopted by the value chains of carriers in both camps. While Qualcomm may be pushing UMB, they have asserted that they have submitted more proposals to the LTE standard that have been accepted, than any other contributor.Multi-mode units will be required for many years, on all existing networks that opt for LTE, and even greenfield stand alone broadband carriers will need to use Qualcomm IPR. Qualcomm will sell LTE chips and book licensing revenues, as well. Mobile OFDMA systems will need Flarion inventions and extensions to function for the forseeable future. This will all play out over decades, not quickly. UMB is a long shot in the press at present, but I've seen this movie before. We'll have to see who's first to market, and what the relative real world experiences of users on both systems are. Many winning games would not have been played at all, had they been played on paper rather than in the field. Either way, as in 3G, Qualcomm will be there, and involved.