Do you guys know who owns the patents on WiMax? Who will benefit from this technology?

On CDMA2000 and WCDMA, I don’t know that this technology will big revenue producer because I just can’t see consumers spending big bucks on mobile internet, especially when WiMax is on the horizon.

Personally, I would never use a CDMA phone because I like the convenience of moving my sim card to any handset I like.

I wonder how many homes the Nokia layoff will add to the housing inventory in this declining market.

On WiMax, Intel and Motorola both push it hard, partly because they don’t benefit much from existing technologies (from infrastructure side for Motorola). Its core technologies is similar to OFDM, and Qualcomm bought OFDM pioneer Flarion, so Qualcomm should be a player too if WiMax takes off. The “if” is big — even though WiMax itself is a good technology, standards are not firm yet, especially for the roaming part. So by the time that standards get set and the whole value chain (devices, infrastructure, etc) gets established, CDMA EV-DO RevA and HSDPA would have been widely deployed. So WiMax will more likely be supplemental to the existing wireless infrastructure, likely providing high speed data access for hot spots.

It’ll be interesting if NOK rehires here… I assume that they will always want to have some R&D people close to Qualcomm?

Also, WCDMA and CDMA2k are very different technologies and I don’t know if you can take a guy who has been doing CDMA work for 3 years and instantly train him to do GSM, EDGE or WCDMA. Best to hire someone who has worked directly with that technology recently don’t you agree? It can be done, but what I have seen is that the folks that know each technology tend to know nothing about the other and the learning curve is steep and takes time. Especially if you hope to design cutting edge devices and you are up against competition that has this stuff mastered. Nokia worldwide should have some resources to put towards this if they indeed are going to do this in San Diego. But re-hiring 300 CDMA engineers may not be the answer! Or if they do there is a great opportunity for a company to do on-site training:)

Personally, I would never use a CDMA phone because I like the convenience of moving my sim card to any handset I like.

Me too, but most people with GSM phones have locked phones and can’t use a SIM from another GSM provider anyway…

I think rehiring is still a rumor, we’ll find out next week, but other rumor i hear is that they will completely layoff. Also, you have to think why would they rehire CDMA developer to develop WCDMA/GSM product. They’re very different. It would also be much cheaper for them to just hire GSM/WCDMA engineers in Dallas than here. It would also be more cost effective to have WCDMA/GSM R&D center(s) in one area than spread it out across the united states.

i got a couple of jobs through monster

that sucks