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To: Dave who wrote (15555)	9/26/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Dave, "My main point is this: I hope the Q will get off of its high horse and try to come up with some reasonable terms. What is of the utmost importance to the Q is get cross licensing on their competitions CDMA and TDMA/GSM patent portfolios thereby expanding the market from just South Korea and America to, hopefully, Europe." The other day in a post to Rajala # 15407 I laid out what I thought were two likely scenarios for the outcome of this 3G argument, one being Q wins because of the strength of its patents and the quality of its solutions, the other being that WCDMA refuses to surrender and we're left with two standards WCDMA and CDMA 2000. I realized afterwards that I might have neglected the most likely scenario, which is some sort of compromise between the parties, cobble it together however you will, but a deal which is better for the Q than if it had simply gone along with the first proposal/ demands with which it was presented, and would vindicate its tough negotiating stance... dave