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To: DaveMG who wrote (19215)	12/7/1998 11:09:00 AM
From: marginmike	Respond to of 152472

yah but nokia is not really up today?Kinda strange.

To: DaveMG who wrote (19215)	12/7/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: kech	Respond to of 152472

From Michael P's article: The market seems to think this is better for Qualcomm than for Ericsson (at least based on today's trading). Is this because Qcom can go ahead with CDMA2000 on the assumption that dual mode phones will make it compatible with whatever Ericsson does? In addition, Ericy will still need to pay royalties for W-CDMA? Tom M.P's article below: "The dispute has boiled down to a battle over patents, principally between Qualcomm and Ericsson. According to Mr Engelman, Qualcomm which is based in San Diego holds several patents for the commercial application of original (second-generation) CDMA, and is threatening not to share them in a patent pool unless the European WCDMA merges with CDMA2000. Swedish company [ Ericsson ] responds that WCDMA doesn't infringe any valid Qualcomm patents. Its corporate director responsible for standards, Mr Mats Nilsson, says Qualcomm is the only US manufacturer lobbying for convergence between the two standards. A resolution to this issue may be at hand, thanks to ever smaller and cheaper technology. A recent Motorola and Nokia presentation to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) proposed merging only enough of the radio interface parameters to allow dual-mode handsets to be cheaply manufactured. Welcoming such a development, Mr Alistair Urie, product strategy director for mobile operations with the French company Alcatel, says it may only cost as little as 10 per cent extra to make a multi-mode phone if enough of the radio interface is common. "