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European Union Opens Antitrust Case Against Qualcomm

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Oct 1, 2007, 11:28 AM   by (staff)

The case, expected after six mobile technology companies filed a complaint with the EU, will investigate Qualcomm's alleged unfair and abusive business practices. The complaint says that Qualcomm refused to share licensing terms of its mobile technology and has infringed on the EU's competition rules. Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic Mobile and Texas Instruments said Qualcomm was not making its intellectual property available at competitive rates. Though the case was elevated to high priority status, it will likely take two years to investigate.

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PooFlinger1

Oct 1, 2007, 1:28 PM

Absurd

Personally I think this is just one of the EU's latest attempts to squash US compettition. First was microsoft. Wether you like them or not, they were targeted for more than just monopolistic tatics. The EU has pretty much said that it planned on targeting US corportations for such investigations and possible lawsuits. Apple, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are just a few. I wonder what would happen to poor old europe if the US just pulled out instead of fighting these frivilous lawsuits? Sure, the US economy would take a hit, but not as large of one as the EU would take.
The economies of the countries in the world are way more integrated than you may realize. Whether or not the EU is hurt more than the US, the amount of economic decline will be on a crisis level to both. So yeah, no one's gonna do anything.

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I am not a huge fan of Qualcomm, but I don't agree with the EU's actions. There are other alternatives available if these companies don't agree with the royalty rates of Qualcomm. It is not like they are being forced to use their technology. Qualco...
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I think that the paragraph said investigate a complaint. Thats it, it said nothing about charges being filed or anything like that so do not read more into it than what it is. This is not a Europe vs US case as others have made complaints about Qual...
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evrodude

Oct 1, 2007, 12:09 PM

It's about time...

Finally!..
qualcomm = 😈
This is ridiculous though. They are complaining because Qualcomm has many patents, enforcing them at decent royalty rates, and has a huge market share. What is this world coming to? Is it Q’s fault because they are so big? They should com...
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BigHev

Oct 2, 2007, 12:29 PM

the EU = PU

what smells like hairy female armpit b.o.?
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sangyup81

Oct 1, 2007, 1:23 PM

They haven't been charged!

And if nextel18 is right, they won't be charged. This is just a group of companies (most notably Nokia) crying about some royalties at this point. Also, I really don't like that Broadcom is in this group.
Motorola appears absent, but I think that may be because they are vicariously represented by Texas Instruments in this case. But I forget how all of that is working now.
 
 
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