InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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Skeptics point out that Nokia paid $31.5 million in royalties to InterDigital between 1999 and 2001, so an increase to $200 million during the next four years, when the licenses expire, seems steep...........

..............Similarly, Samsung Electronics paid $17 million in royalties from 1996 to 2001, making it seem unlikely to bears that it would be willing to pay the $70 million during the next four years that InterDigital anticipates it "could" receive

Samsung joined the BCDMA alliance in 1996 when its global market share was limited to 2G CDMA. Since then its global market share has increased 5x.

Nokia settled with IDCC in 1999 while it was nearly doubling its 1997 market share in a global wireless market
that was increasing its installed base by 5x.

Put simply, Nokia and Samsung combined shipped 24M handsets in 1997. Last year Nokia and Samsung combined shipped 188M handsets.

   
             Global        Annual    Nokia    Samsung   Ericsson 
           Subscriber     Handset    Market    Market     Market 
 YEAR         Base         Sales      Share     Share      Share 
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 1997        200M          115M       19%         ~2%      20% 
 2002        1.1B          408M       36%         10%       6%* 
 2004**      1.5B          505M        ?           ?        ? 
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 *50/50 joint venture - Sony/Ericsson 
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 **Piper Jaffrey forecast 
  
 http://www.nordicwirelesswatch.com/wireless/story.html?story_id=3153 
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