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To: elmatador who wrote (57278)	11/1/2009 6:14:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219673

They are all Qualcomm technology, but China plans on stealing intellectual property with their "Invented in China" version. Europe tried that too and is still trying: <China Mobile needs TD-SCDMA devices if its 3G roll-out is to be a success in competition with China Telecom, which is using Qualcomm’s 3G version, and China Unicom, which is using the global UMTS standard, both likely to result in lower prices for Chinese users. There is only a remote possibility that TD-SCDMA will find application in other markets — so Nokia has only one customer for the new terminal. > If a company had done what the governments of Europe did, they'd be in gaol for price fixing, ring-fencing markets, excluding competition. W-CDMA was forced on Euroserfs - along with the 12% royalties. Qualcomm's proprietary CDMA can do the same thing for only 4% royalty [average with maximum about 5.5% and Nokia getting away with only about 2%]. China no doubt thought that with a Made in China CDMA they could leverage their huge market and take over the world. Unfortunately for them, 1 billion people is few compared with 5 billion though all in one place, 1 billion can look like quite a crowd. Stealing technology from inventive Qualcomm people is not the road to riches. Stealing and working for low pay is not leadership. Mqurice