Ban Halts Release of New 3G Phones
monopoly??
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nextel18 said:
Of course the royalty rate should be fair and shouldn’t be more than what fair value is, but if companies won’t even negotiate in good faith, in this case Broadcom with Qualcomm, it will hurt consumers and then hurts innovation.
I disagree on the 'hurts innovation' part. This will give competing technologies a chance to attempt to proliferate the market where Qualcomm has tried to maintain a monopoly. It will give the GSM family a boost. Now, it's not fair to that the companies who chose CDMA2000 or QC to supply chips to suffer, but it was Qualcomm who violated the patent. Qualcomm put up a pretty big fuss of patents in the EU, and now is itself a victim of its own actions.
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However, overturning the ban without the co-operation of Broadcom would also send the message that large companies in the United States who have a large market share don't have to pay royalties to other companies, yet insist other companies pay royalties to them.
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