I first saw this piece in a Wall Street Journal Article by Don Clark. Here is an MSN link for more info. I don't recall hearing about this suit before. Apparently the Department of Justice alleged that Qualcom violated provisions in the Scott-Rodino act from 2005 designed to prevent anti-competitive activities leading up to a merger. For their part Qualcomm and Flarion deny this but agreed to pay $1.8 million to make it go away. What grabbed me most was supposedly that the DOJ did not believe Qualcomm intended to use Flarion's Flash-OFDM technology in its present form. And so it supposedly wanted to avoid Flarion involvement in deals that could conflcit with its plans and allegely pursuing sales efforts that did not benefit Qualcomm strategy before the deal closed. Now I have no idea if this is the case or not. But if it were so, it brings up interesting questions as to how Qualcomm plans to use this tech. What exactly might they plan to do with it? And where would that leave existing Flarion customers? Fun speculation eh? Tim Sanders tim@thefinalmile.net  www.thefinalmile.net  www.wimaxglobalnews.com