InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[blueskywaves]

You're wrong, as usual, Mickey.

The fixed wireless BCDMA alliance was the first opportunity for IDCC to translate the CDMA patents it acquired from SCS in 1992 from theory into practice at a time when the processing power wasn't simply available for mobile WCDMA. Even today the technology still hasn't caught up totally with the marketing hype as you can check for yourself from the almost daily dispatches from Japan.

Without that valuable lab and field work from 1994 to 1998, I don't think IDCC could have gotten the 1999 Nokia deal. They would most certainly have run out of money before 1999 and Nokia would have been able to buy IDCC's patent portfolio in a song and dance contest against Samsung and Siemens probably in a karaoke bar with a sauna.<g>

I also don't think IDCC would be getting the kind of CDMA patents that it is getting issued now if they hadn't taken Schilling's CDMA patents into the field.

You only make yourself and your friends look silly by your stupid revisionism that now claims that IDCC's BCDMA R&D, financed mostly by Siemens, Samsung and Alacatel, was a failure.