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NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Wednesday it
will launch an international videophone service, based on its FOMA
third-generation (3G) mobile phone technology, between Japan and Britain on Oct.
1.
The first international videophone service by a Japanese cell phone operator
will be conducted jointly with Hutchison 3G UK, NTT DoCoMo said.
The new service will charge 72 yen per 10 seconds of conversation, roughly
double the charges of regular cell phone services.
No application for the new service is necessary, according to NTT DoCoMo. FOMA
subscribers simply dial 009130-010-44, followed by the Hutchison 3G UK mobile
phone number.
Hutchison 3G began 3G services in Britain in March in cooperation with NTT
DoCoMo.
The biggest Japanese mobile phone operator expects to expand the videophone
service to other countries including Austria and Australia in the future.
"We will consider a hookup with (British wireless giant) Vodafone Group PLC," an
NTT DoCoMo official said.
NTT DoCoMo announced the videophone service plan at the WPC Expo 2003, Asia's
biggest trade show for personal computers and communications technologies, which
started Wednesday at the Nippon Convention Center, better known as Makuhari
Messe, in the city of Chiba near Tokyo.
Displaying exhibits by 377 companies, the trade show is expected to attract
300,000 visitors during its run through Saturday.
no attack,just my view. Nobody has to agree with me,its a free world,i think.
Sorry JK thats remark was directed at sjratty.
It would be nice to hear from other legel eagles with no hidden agenda's.
Sounds like your trying to buy shares at a lower price. Your augument doen't make sense. Nokia's brief doesn't sound that strong to me. But of course i'am just a simple lay man using common sense.
It breaks both ways doesn't it. If IDCC and ERICY want to extend the litagation indefinantly then Nokia is going to find it very hard to compete for 3G without access to IDCC patents. The other handset manufactures will love sticking it to nokia.
I like IDCC's position more then Nokia's.
I don't think there is anything wrong with the site,i got it fairly easily.
Thanks for the update,jaykay,probably just the market turning up the reason for the sudden upsurge.
Something just broke,maybe the nokia response is now available.
What happans if they don't file the brief on time and the georgia lawyers have made a mistake regarding the 10 days. Will the case be thrown out?
Thanks loop. I was hoping they would fight back a little more agressively and threaten some sort of injunction,must have been a dream.
Can somebody remind me,did IDCC issue a counter suit. I thought they said they were going to do this in the CC.
2vest,i wish you well. I tried the buy and hold forever method and always ended up broke. However,i have always rated IDCC,one of the best holds out there.
Learning2invest,that would be the best news possible for all those who have stuck with IDCC for so long.
The Ericy designs are not unique.
Doesn't this say that IDCC actually won in the litigation with IDCC.
So ERicsson admits:-
The Ericy designs are not unique.
So whose design patents were they using?
Very positive development,ERicy and IDCC are agreed upon the course of action. Nokia has not got a leg to stand on now. Who cares whatt the market is doing right now,i feel better with my investment.
The market does not seem to be agreeing with you. Word is getting out.
Maybe they (barclays) had some bad luck in the Bond Market. Got to liquidate some positions to cover a margin call.
The good news is that the Asian markets do seem to be recovering and that bodes well for IDCC Japanease partners and the real story for the next decade will be China and India. I also see the African continant recovering as the continants resources make them wealthier.
Cheer up people,here is a chart of another company that has suffered from the same shorts attacking this stock. Got to admit these guys are good,but if the story of the company has got some truth to it the company stock price does recover.
http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=PLMD,uu[h,a]waclyyay[df][pd9,1!b200][vc60][iUya7,14,28!L...
Goblue,Why then does KOP not adopt the same plan. They allow the chip vendors to use their patents and then the chip vendors can only sell those chips to the companies who have agreed to pay royalties to IDCC at a given rate.
This creates the competition needed for all to sign up.
I was under the impression during the ERICY case that if one of the patents in question was found to be infringed upon then IDCC would have won the case. Was i wrong to believe this?
To much friggin secrecy in all this. Qualcomm management is far more smarter then i ever believed,it seems.
I don't see the problem here. So IDCC gets paid for the patents that cannot be indemnified. Then whats to prevent the licensee to stop paying the original licensor of the patent its royalty and pay a lower royalty rate to IDCC for the same patent. IDCC has a new revenue stream from the patents which currently they have not been collecting on.
This way the vendor using the patent currently ,stops payment of royalty to qualcomm and starts paying at a cheaper rate to IDCC.
If then qualcomm opts to give the patent up for free then IDCC is not in any worse shape then they were before.
This indemnification augument seems like a bit of nonsense,the only loser will be qualcomm.
Data,maybe i'am a bit ignorant about these things but doesn't the following spell things out. Maybe they will not be actually making the ASICs but their patents new and old will be used,and will have to be licensed,won't they.
""We are designing our FDD software product to be integrated with our Time Division Duplex (TDD) technology platform to ensure seamless operation in 3G products. InterDigital is uniquely positioned to bring these complementary technologies, integrated with GSM/GPRS, together in one product, offering equipment producers a full WCDMA solution," concluded Mr. Lemmo.
This complete UMTS FDD software protocol stack can run on any real time operating system and hardware platform, including existing FDD physical layer implementations. It is fully compliant with the 3GPP FDD Release 4 Standard. InterDigital, along with its partner Comneon, offers the solution with a USIM interface and toolkit, evaluation and development support, and application notes and support to provide a time to market advantage for equipment manufacturers and ASIC vendors.
InterDigital architects, designs and provides advanced wireless technologies and products that drive voice and data communications, offering solutions for mainstream wireless applications that deliver cost and time-to-market advantages for its customers.
By leveraging its technology and intellectual property into third generation standards and products, the Company is maximizing its long-term revenue and earnings opportunities. InterDigital has a strong portfolio of patented TDMA inventions, including GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and CDMA inventions, which it licenses worldwide.
Surly the revelence of the patants that qcom can hypothetically indemnify are nullified by the statement regarding the ASICs.
" For some of the ITC patents, Qualcomm’s sublicensing rights are limited to those situations where Qualcomm is selling ASICs to the customer. For a limited number of patents as to which applications were filed prior to March 8, 1995, Qualcomm may grant licenses under such ITC patents regardless of whether the customer is also purchasing an ASIC from Qualcomm."
The devlopment of IDCC's new chip would make it virtually impossible for qcom to indemnify anybody,i would think. Qualcomm has no sublicensing agreements with the newer patants involved in the development of the chip. Then these threats by which ever company issuing them makes me think they are just pissing in the wind.
Tell me how qcom can indemnify a chip.
Maybe chicken marsala was always short the stock. As i said before wall st is a den of very smart people ( actually i said crooks,but on reflection if i was privy to the info they get i would join them). The Trojan horse comes to mind with this individual.
Don't underestimate the shorts in all this. One could easily turn it round and say the shorts had insider info. I have seen it in a number of stocks they are heavily short on. It so happans that these stocks run up just prior to real bad news. Wall street is still a den of crooks but their rumour and knowledge departments are as good as the mossads.
JM,generally iwould agree with you but i think management should make an exception this time. Maybe they may not be managing the company as well as they should be,if they stopped being so secretive about everything,they would not be open to so many attacks.
Exeperience has taught me that one tends to be a victim because one wants to be. Just look at IDCC's track record. My question to you is why was the Nokia contract not made more definitive.
Then IDCC needs to stablise the stock price by preannouncing earnings and relieve investor fears.
Isn't Marsala a sell side analyst. I guess he feels he was duped or i bet he had hedged his bets regarding arbitration. Wouldn't you want to cover your puts at $12 as well. My guess is he won which ever way the verdict went.
IDCC management needs to put in their counter claim as soon as possible. This event is starting to create a life of its own regarding the fears of people on this board and anlysts covering this stock.
I love this company but even i felt let down and traded the stock this week to recover some of my losses,and i hadn't sold for over a year prior to this event.
The insider sales to be honest with you were troubling to me when they occurred but the stock always seemed to recover,whether that is the case this time,i don't know anymore.
THe problem has always been the secrecy of the dealings. The ERICY court case was the worst example,does anybody really know what happaned other then they came to some sort of agreement.
Take the CC recently did management really tell us anything other then they thought they had a good case.
Man you could pull any of the strings management have told us and be left with more questions then answers.
I have no doubt IDCC will eventually win but the uncertianties inbetween these events have made this stock prone to short attacks.
As Jimlur said the next thing idcc shareholders should be aware of is that the sec may ask questions reagrding the trades carried out by management recently. You know for a fact the hedge funds who are short have sent letters to the SEC. Its the ploy used by the the shorts with PLMD,TTWO and many other stocks they are short.
Maybe the management should communicate with the SEC to put their side of the story first.
The good news is that the 93 million euro's NOK is holding gets us shareholders another 10 million on the balance sheet after conversion to dollars. Maybe idcc should get samsung and the rest to pay their royalties in euro's too.
Could these options be needed due to an impending aquisition?
Please someone who has the ears of management tell them to get all future royalty payments paid in Euro's and not to convert into dollars. The dollar has had it as the currency of choice around the world.
I hope IDCC management demand ERICY and NOK and whoever else to pay license fee's in Euro's. The dollar is ready to tank IMHO. Could put a few more cents on the bottom line after conversion.
Would appreciate a copy also pandian@zianet.com. Thankyou very much.
Could somebody tell me when the insiders should be able to sell? Should it be only after the NOK and Sumsung monies are in or when the 3G licenses are set or when?
Anybody selling their full positions on Monday are foolish. If you have to sell why not 50% of tyour holdings. I have tried to trade this stock recently since the run up from $13.5 and i'am finding it very difficult. The stock is acting very impressively and i for one will be now be buying on weakness.
The runup in short interest indicates the shorts knew about the insider selling but still have not dented this stock that much. I mean what greater uncertianty then the indemnify statement added to that the insider sales,but the stock continues to perform quite well.
I wonder what prices the MSFT,QCOM and INTC management were selling their stock for before their stocks really took off.
The future looks bright for IDCC even with all the uncertianties.
What if NOK decided to pay and it was announced on Tuesday,the people who sold are going to regret it,maybe for the rest of their lives.
Looking back at past insider sales,Harry for one has sold 60000-80000 shares each year. This pattern is nothing new. Harry normally does one big sale per year the others spread it out more through out the year.
These insider sales are not out of the ordinary.
Looking to buy on the panic on monday.
Whats all the fuss,somebody said harry had nearly 300,000 shares so he sold 33% to spread his holdings. Nearly all the top managements are doing that these days. HG was on bloomberg yesterday,he seemed to think things were fine. Looking forward to buying shares on the panic on monday. Never thought i would able to buy below $20 again.