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David Rosenthal: belief

15 Nov 2022 Acquired Qualcomm

“South Korea, for a time, was I think close to 40% of Qualcomm's revenues, and it was one of the most advanced mobile countries all just using Qualcomm.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
15 Nov 2022
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Qualcomm

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…In Chicago, I think. Chicago, yeah. I think a big chunk of the Midwest. Then there's another brilliant move. They start going international. Here in the US, there's all this forward momentum that's already happened with the 1G analog services, the TDMA, and all that. They're like, what if we go out to countries where it's just tabula rasa, like clean slate, and we pitch this as the obvious best technology, and famously, South Korea back to the government mandated standards? The South Korean government is like, yup, this is clearly the best government mandated. They were building up the first cellphone networks in South Korea that were going to be these digital next gen networks, all CDMA, all Qualcomm. South Korea, for a time, was I think close to 40% of Qualcomm's revenues, and it was one of the most advanced mobile countries all just using Qualcomm. There's lots of benefits to the free market, freedom, and rights of individuals.…

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