Again, Qualcomm is CDMA, not Wimax. The topic is Wimax and Wimax companies. Not non-Wimax companies like Qualcomm and Verizon.
"In this week's Barron's, Bill Alpert's WiMAX War Heats Up discusses the impending showdown between Sprint Nextel (S) and Qualcomm (QCOM) over Sprint's WiMAX rollout. Sprint, a long-time licensee of Qualcomm's CDMA technology recently announced that it will spend $3 billion upgrading its network to WiMAX technology, thereby freeing itself from Qualcomm's patents."