Industry Giants Square Off Against Qualcomm Over 3G Patents
Sad sad world................
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its like saying you pay for patents, you pay for R&D, but if you are the leader in the industry you are considered to be a monopoly and considered to be targeted for anti-trust and other charges.
it is pathetic... whats the point of getting patents and paying a fortune for R&D, becuase you can just sue sue sue and the company would have to settle. lol.
qcom will always lead becuase of their managment, cash flows, patents, and R&D.
Won't AT&T always lead in the telecom industry with their R&D and advanced network?
It's not being alleged that Qualcomm is acting that way because it is a leader in the industry, it is alleged that Qualcomm is using its position in the industry to prevent others from taking hold. Qualcomm is essentially trying to collect more royalties than the other patent holders, charging more for WCDMA to possibly to try to sway a change to CDMA2000.
Is it right for drug companies to overcharge use of medications just because the *can*?
AT&T is a red herring. They had some of the best R&D combined with some of the worst execution. Comaparing AT&T to QCOM is like trying to compare a snail to a dolphin.
Bugwart said:
Corporations are owned by their shareholders. The shareholders demand that the companies make money...
That statement made me think of Ford's Pinto fiasco, where Ford decided it would be cheaper to settle wrongful death suits against customers who bought the Pinto and died when it caught fire than it would to recall and repair the Pintos. Or the Firestone incident...
The Pinto decision was extremely stupid because the actual cost to Ford and it share holders was extremely high.
No one is accusing Qualcomm of building a Pinto. Far from it. The 6 cry babies acknowledge that they have not been able to produce as good a product as Qualcomm is selling. So rather than sink the money into R&D to come up with a better product, they went to Rent-a-Bully to try to beat Qaualcomm into submission.
I wasn't comparing the situations.
NO one is forcing anyone to by Qualcomm IP. People buy it because it is better.
What comes to Quallcomm, it's not that they wouldn't be allowed to sell patents with the price they choose to, but that they're violating their promise to price these patents in certain way. That's how they got them included in the standard in the first place.
Any thoughts on this?
But then Quallcomm's are minority technologies, and GSM based ones the global standards. Or like GSM association boldly puts it, CDMA is an outsider technology.
Now with WCDMA Quallcomm is more important because they managed to get their share in it. Still, they have little role in people's lives outside the small CDMA based markets.
Sometimes Quallcomm is talked as something more important than it is, especially in American media.
So far the global wireless technology trends have been set by others, namely...
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T-P said:
So far the global wireless technology trends have been set by others, namely Europeans. I don't know how Quallcomm's attitude affects their success in the future, though.
I would expect that the Europeans will not want to deal with Qualcomm in the future now, where if Qualcomm was like Nokia, Ericsson, and the others, it probably would not have been a big deal. Possibly, Qualcomm is trying to delay the deployment of WCDMA based technologies so it can "brag" about how CDMA2000 is beating it by far to market?
They would much rather a 100% Qualcomm patent product be the global standard than a 20% Qualcomm patent product be standard with 80% of the global standard belonging to someone else.
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