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To: AlfaNut who wrote (76060)	4/2/2008 7:16:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197214

4% 5% 12% 16% - no, I haven't seen any contracts. But there is fairly solid evidence around the 5% for CDMA mark. QUALCOMM said there as 16% royalty on GSM [Google would have references]. I forget where the 12% on W-CDMA came from, but Google would know. Nokia and co wanted to have total royalties at 5%, but QUALCOMM wouldn't have it. So we can assume there is at least 5% for everyone else, and 5% for QUALCOMM. Since Nokia was indulging wishful thinking, their 5% no doubt went a bit over and ended at 7%. Total 12%. I'd be dollars to doughnuts that W-CDMA is around there. And that GSM was around 16% though a lot of patents for GSM would have expired now, so it's probably a lot lower than that these days for basic GSM. Mqurice