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To: J.B.C. who wrote (11111)	6/4/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: Sawtooth	Respond to of 152472

<<Ericsson has overplayed its hand in the W-CDMA debate. It will have to accept fees considerably higherer than 5%, it will have to make W-CDMA compatible with IS-95, it will get involved in horrible litigation with Qualcomm which unnerves investors, it possibly gets finessed completely out of W-CDMA; pick any two of the above.>> If this were what Ericy was up against, wouldn't their most logical course of action be to acquire Qcom? Even at 3-4X market cap, it wouldn't be an unmanageable deal. (I am aware of discussion of the Q's IPR-related "poison pill" but have not seen supported details.)