Qualcomm Renews Licensing Pursuit Against Nokia, Faces EU Investigation
Quallcomm afraid of Nokia?
I'm just wondering why Quallcomm always attacks Nokia... maybe it is because Nokia is the biggest patent holder in the wireless industry, and are thus an ever present threat to Quallcomm's patent licensing revenues. Quallcomm is simply afraid of Nokia.
These patents in question here haven't been a problem earlier, but only now that the negotiations aren't going as expected.
Oh well.
These patents in question here haven't been a problem earlier, but only now that the negotiations aren't going as expected.
Oh well.
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You are wrong with your statement about Qualcomm always attacking Nokia. Nokia has helped lead a campaign in Europe against Qualcomm. Nokia, along with five other major telecommunications companies, including Ericsson, NEC, Panasonic Mobile, Broadcom and Texas Instruments, filed individual complaints in 2005 asking the European Commission to investigate what the group called Qualcomm's “anti-competitive conduct.”. Nokia has tried to stop Qualcomm from getting a foothold in Europe from the beginning. They has cost carriers Billions because they lied about CDMA 2000 and how much better it was than WCDMA. WCDMA is a blotted standard put together by a committee to ensure each has some patents included.
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Qualcomm hasn't been able to get any foothold in Europe due to the continent being "GSM and its derivatives only" market.
Nokia has not "lied" about CDMA 2000, since they've never promoted it to operators: Nokia has always supported WCDMA through its handsets and network gear. It is the second biggest in WCDMA networks after Ericsson. Nokia and other European manufacturers have driven the "WCDMA only" policy, and have been winning against other standards, as they did with GSM.
Qualcomm, on the other hand, would want CDMA 2000 and also other 2 and 2.5 generation CDMA technologies to be more popular, but they have never been able to challenge GSM and its derivatives, GPRS and EDGE.
And the case in Europe against Qualcomm was based ...
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Nokia has not "lied" about CDMA 2000, since they've never promoted it to operators: Nokia has always supported WCDMA through its handsets and network gear. It is the second biggest in WCDMA networks after Ericsson. Nokia and other European manufacturers have driven the "WCDMA only" policy, and have been winning against other standards, as they did with GSM.
Qualcomm, on the other hand, would want CDMA 2000 and also other 2 and 2.5 generation CDMA technologies to be more popular, but they have never been able to challenge GSM and its derivatives, GPRS and EDGE.
And the case in Europe against Qualcomm was based ...
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