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5 Reasons To Own Qualcomm

Jae Jun, you are amazingly wrong on all points! You know exactly nothing about the exclusionary and much higher GSM royalty rate structure for the first full decade of high growth (13-29% vs. Qualcomm's 4-5%); MediaFlo is being developed at Qualcomm's expense, essentially no-cost to the carriers ( as a shareholder I'd personally like to see the whole TV initiative, spectrum and all, spun off or sold now-- Qualcomm advised shareholders last year that there is no profitability foreseen for "4+ years"); Qualcomm has done a great deal of work with LTE chipsets and is ahead in that game, will collect 1 or 2% royalties for their brilliant and risky patent work if single mode LTE handsets are ever produced. Meanwhile, the fallback for LTE, to be deployed in high density sites when the economics are right, like around 2012-16, will be with multimode handsets operating over ubiquitous global 3G CDMA networks, for which Qualcomm has over 80 vendors gratefully and profitably signed up at standard rates until at least 2017, notwithstanding Nokia's noise.

Do some work, my friend. You're aware only of the headlines of inaccurate old stories. I will grant you, though, that Qualcomm's PR work has always been bad.