Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

[JohnG]

olddog967 Yes, as far as it goes, "charging what the market will bear" says it all."

The market in this case includes:
1) associations of operators who have been thoroughly hosed in Europe,

2)Govt bodies in Euronut land other than Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland who may see their citizens as getting screwed by the scheme to build a "walled garden" for certain phone builder companies bu charging huely for the ARBITRARY, RANDOM, TRASH IP that has been stuffed into the WCDMA standard to the point that it took yars to get it to work,

3) countries like China/India that can totally shut your technology out of a huge country if you appear to be unreasonable.

It is reasonable to postulate that there is an upper limit on the total royalties that the WCDMA cabal is going to charge a Chinese company and still do business there. They can simply reject the scheme to deploy a Euronut "Walled Garden" royalty system on WCDMA in China. QCOM will be getting their 5%. QCOM is going for a fraction of the max 30% royalty on the GSM walled garden royalty on PURE GSM. Possibly, QCOM really wants a fair shake on WCDMA/CDMA and really doesn't care much about PURE GSM royalties.

Companies like Interdigital and the CABAL have stuffed the WCDMA standard full of ARBITRARY, RANDOM, TRASH IP are not up against one weakling operator. They are up against associations of operators who have been thoroughly hosed recently as well as governments that can simply shut you out.

Also, while bribery and corruption may be the norm in India, there is a rather short chain of justice for bribery in China. They simply 1) march into the offender's office, 2) remove him to the nearest parking lot, 3) execute him by fireing squad and 4) ship his lifeless body to the family's doorstep. These measures do get the attention of those tempted to take bribes.