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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BDAZZ who wrote (108317)	1/4/2012 4:51:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 197271

BD, that wasn't a gamble. It has been my primary motivation for my QCOM investment and the pdQ was the harbinger of all that followed: < In contrast Qcom gambled on the coming of the smartphone and shifted the R&D into high gear, and took this company from "promising" to the top of this market. > The whole purpose of Qualcomm was the coming of the smartphone, netbooks and general wireless Cyberspace connectedness. They built internet protocol into Qualcomm's technology from the very beginning to enable exactly that. The GSM Cartel managed to achieve their fantastically large swindle by imposing the high royalty GSM foundations into W-CDMA [costing three times as much as CDMA2000 royalties to achieve a worse result] and have now gone on to leverage that base into the poorly designed high-priced ring-fenced LTE cartel of very unFRANDly royalties, now with patent wars to get a piece of the action and to exclude competition. The whining over QCOM's derisory royalties as being the cause of CDMA's slow development was falsified by the continuation of the extorquerationate W-CDMA and LTE royalties and the very high spectrum prices. If royalties were significant, CDMA2000 and Flarion style OFDM would rule the waves. They don't. Wifi rules the waves [in total data transmitted] and is booming with a narrow slice of publicly polluted spectrum while the oligopolist "managed" spectrum owners demand more and more huge swathes of spectrum to achieve not much at all. Mqurice