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To: elmatador who wrote (81981)	10/23/2011 2:06:51 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 220217

ElM, to the extent that TD-LTE succeeds it will be thanks to the good offices of Qualcomm in assisting with the asic developments which are the body and soul of it. The Made in China people add a few bells and whistles so they can call it their own and hope to gain market share sufficient to keep out competitors. LTE in whatever form is the lead on from W-CDMA and the GSM Cartel which has swindled the planet starting with the Euroserfs into paying extorquerational royalties of at least 12% and it seems likely to be much more now that Apple and others are leveraging non-essential but highly useful patents into the LTE ensemble. Qualcomm had offered to do the lot via Flarion and other technology at a low 4% royalty but the political machinations or the ring-fencing rip-off merchants won the day. But fortunately there is wifi and that is providing a fairly good way around the wide area network oligopolist highway robbers. Mqurice