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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DaveMG who wrote (19315)	12/8/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

This is not a positive at all for QCOM. It means nothing, and indicates to me that no progress has been made. Ericsson offered up something that QCOM had already pre-pooh poohed in their white paper. Worthless, and a net negative for QCOM in that it shows how bullheaded Ericsson is about this negotiation. More from QCOM's white paper: "QUALCOMM believes it has essential Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for W-CDMA, and it intends to license these patents on reasonable terms and conditions free from unfair discrimination for a single converged IMT-2000 standard, or, if not achieved, only for cdma2000. In addition, QUALCOMM has extended or is preparing to extend these bilateral agreements, and the Company intends to review its royalty rates within the context of the market size that will be achieved by a single converged standard. QUALCOMM has no intention of generally licensing its essential patent portfolio for any IMT-2000 standard (such as W-CDMA) that is purposefully made incompatible with cdmaOne and ANSI-41 without providing a material benefit to the industry."