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Qualcomm's Recent Progress on 3G and 4G Notebooks

"...since for the first time since 1995 it doesn’t have a mobile phone standard of its own."

This is misleading information. Simple research would reveal Qualcomm has plenty of essential LTE (ORMD-related) patents and has publically claimed a royalty rate of 3.25% for LTE, subject to negotiations. Not too shabby and the 15yr agreement with Nokia affirms QCOM's ORMD patent portfolio. Royalty-bearing LTE agreements have also been made with other prominent licensees, according to previous company announcements.

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Re: Qualcomm: Based on the current superiority of its chip division, QCOM will likely be out front of the competition with leading edge LTE chips as well. A read of their recent agreement with Nokia shows that LTE is also included in the royalty agreement. That is 40% of the handset market, assuming Nokia maintains it's dominance. QCOM's annual report and numerous press releases has QCOM stating they support ALL technologies, not just their UWB for 4G. And most importantly, the carriers will need multi-mode phones to address the LONG-TERM transition to 4G, be whatever it be. So the various 3G flavors of CDMA (HSPA, wCdMA, EV-DO, etc) will be with us for YEARS to come.