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To: carranza2 who wrote (72750)	4/4/2011 2:06:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219133

Yes, on CDMA2000 and W-CDMA, and TD-SCDMA with many [especially foreign companies] royalties are agreed. But we have yet to see how China will treat so-called "home-grown" TD-SCDMA when push comes to shove and royalty payments are expected. Mqurice

To: carranza2 who wrote (72750)	4/4/2011 2:53:25 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219133

The Chinese, in order to avoid paying royalties, had to reinvent the wheel. This made their technology cumbersome and inefficient. The Chinese pumped more resources into it and refined it into TD-LTE. They also roped in two large Western partners, Verizon and Vodafone, to conduct joint trials of LTE combing the Western (FD) flavour with its own (TD) one. Julian Grivolas, an analyst with Ovum in Paris who tracks the LTE space closely, says China’s goal was to make sure that this joint LTE becomes the next equivalent of the mobile world’s ubiquitous GSM standard. ELMT: here you see what the ungrateful MQ didn't: But the company that took advantage of this trend the fastest was the one which was the last to join the LTE party — Qualcomm. For that it had to swallow its pride and abandon Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), a 4G technology it had been developing for many years. In late 2008, it abandoned UMB to focus exclusively on LTE when it saw big operators tilting towards it. A few years earlier it had already spent over $800 million to acquire Flarion, a company with a significant amount of patents in areas related to LTE. ELMAT: Copying is the best form of fltering. Qualcomm smartly co-opted its erstwhile foe China into becoming an ally by announcing plans to build new “multi-mode” mobile chipset that would combine the version of LTE that Qualcomm and a galaxy of mobile companies like Ericsson and Nokia had developed along with what the Chinese had developed. ELMAT: This is the best part: Given that a significant chunk of TD-LTE patents rest with Chinese companies like China Mobile, Huawei and ZTE, the only way Qualcomm would have integrated them into its own offerings would be by cross-licensing — basically sharing patents with them. The Chinese are returning the love because a global acceptance of TD-LTE will mean cheaper equipment prices for its mobile operators and larger markets for its equipment vendors. business.in.com