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Re: TechWeb: "GSM Based phones can usually be used in many non-U.S.

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2006-12-11, 10:33 pm

carcarx wrote:
> Todd Allcock wrote:
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> Navas' statement
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> John Navas wrote:
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> implies that one won't find cdma2000 phones with Nokia's label on it.
> That and some of Navas' other "half truths" leads to unwarranted and
> errant conclusions.

The biggest whole untruth is that Nokia abandoning the manufacture of
CDMA phones has the slightest relation to the future success or failure
of CDMA. Nokia is angling for lower royalty payments to Qualcomm for
W-CDMA, though why Qualcomm would ever agree to this is beyond any
analysts guess. Love or hate them, Qualcomm has the patents on CDMA, and
anyone that wants to use Qualcomm's patents, has to pay up or have a
cross-licensing agreement.

CDMA continues to gain market share worldwide, of course the reason for
this is that they are starting from zero in so many countries.

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