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To: rhet0ric who wrote (11181)	6/5/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Pierre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

If you are right (as good a guess as any, I think) what happens between time agreement reached and deployment of new product? I had thought that Europe was bumping into capacity problems in urban areas already. Wouldn't that make the GSM/CDMA overlay (already designed and successfully tested, I think) a beneficial and cost effective interim step for European providers in those areas that need capacity? Pierre

To: rhet0ric who wrote (11181)	6/5/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: Gregg Powers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

rhetOric: QC will given Ericsson a royalty free license precisely one day after Hell freezes over. You aren't thinking it through. QC would be better off collecting royalties from a non-backward compatible version of W-CDMA then it would be if it simply gave away its IPR. There seems to be tremendous confusion in this thread about IPR. Stop thinking about IPR as some intangible, fuzzy thing that can be painlessly given away. Start thinking about IPR as a warehouse full of gold, that was painstakingly mined at high expense over many years. Now, picture your reaction if somebody came to you and said, "I want to take your gold, but I don't want to pay you for it". Chances are you would be less than enthusiastic about the prospect. You might agree to loan him the gold, in exchange for an interest payment or some other form of fair compensation, but I strongly suspect you would be terribly unenthusiastic about anything short of this. I also suspect you would think about hiring a lawyer or two, if your newfound friend insisted on simply taking your stuff. Gregg