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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (76021)	4/1/2008 4:31:11 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197209

Also, they were a participant in the 16% GSM licensing rort in which the GSM Cartel ring-fenced their state-protected anti-competitive trust which required people without participation to pay them big heaps. I've always thought that this was only a theoretical "rort." Does anyone actually pay 16%? Does LG? Samsung? Apple? With margins as thin as they are in the handset industry, I don't see how a smaller player can make a decent business with that kind of a royalty burden. Without scale and IPR, it just would not make sense to enter that market. And yet LG, Samsung and Apple seem to be doing OK.