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To: Dave who wrote (16462)	10/14/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Qualcomm has already announced that convergence with a fair royalty rate is the way it wants to go. ETSI members forged ahead with their UMTS/WCDMA/ whatever proposal assuming Qualcomm would feel differently. It didn't happen. qualcomm.com I am not aware of other participants fighting for the best interest of providers and consumers.

To: Dave who wrote (16462)	10/15/1998 4:47:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Dave[clone3], ".... Let's assume that the Q will lower their licensing rate from 5% to 1%." Nah, let's assume they raise it from 7% to 10%. This is high quality super smart stuff we are dealing with, which everyone on earth wants to buy, and QUALCOMM is in the box seat, with cash coming in like crazy, a strong market presence and a following wind. I suppose they could increase it just a little, since the market will be huge and they wouldn't want to slow acceptance too much. Better to sell a billion at $20 profit than a million at $1000 profit [actually, they might not sell a million at $1000 profit, so I guess there'll be a happy optimum - I suppose at about 7.314159% of wholesale prices]. Of course, they could just go it alone, but with rabid, confiscatory, USA anti-trust monopoly fears, it wouldn't be long before the USA would just steal it from QUALCOMM, all in the greater good of course. Janet Reno will destroy Microsoft just as QUALCOMM is attracting the MSFT customers and MSFT's alleged, but non-existent, monopoly collapses. Then she'll come drooling after the next big and successful business where bad people are getting rich. Okay, less rant, more read! Mqurice PS: Incidentally, QUALCOMM founders owned Linkabit, which was instrumental in developing TDMA, of which GSM is merely a variation. A bit like the Great and Wondrous Multimedia CDMA by L M Ericsson is but a variation of cdmaOne. Antennae arrays notwithstanding.