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To: brian h who wrote (8254)	2/9/1998 2:15:00 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Acceptance is indeed the key. Not just by Motorola. Sony asked for steep royalties for their superior Beta video system. The standard is now a footnote in history. Sony's royalties from Beta are zero, and every home uses lower quality VHS. Qualcomm has an opportunity to repeat this fiasco. They can make CDMA royalties cheap enough to kill off super-GSM before it's born and collect royalties from the entire world. Or they can collect expensive royalties from virtually nobody. The future for end-users and Qualcoom alike hinges on how much Qualcomm is willing to give up to get Ericsson and the rest of the world onto CDMA. If Qualcomm is greedy and short-sighted, we'll end up with incompatible networks and Qualcomm will remain the company that could have been.

To: brian h who wrote (8254)	2/9/1998 7:09:00 PM
From: 2brasil	Respond to of 152472

Yes where is that CDMA phone from MOT, I also think this is key player in cdma expansion, here in Brazil it's amazing how many people have the startac (analog) on there belt and they go from $550 to $1300 just for phone,can't understand why they supply cdma infrastructures and have been so slow on handset or is it they don't want to pay qcom royalties???? Bruce p.s to me $500 for state of art cdma phone isn't expensive but i don't live in the usa, I thought Q phone was selling really well there?? when I went to Miami DEC 97 they said in radio shack that they were selling real well.