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Re:Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of domin... by mercutio2 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @10:27AM (#16223347)
The Apple Qualcomm exclusivity agreement expired in 2016. So this doesn’t help Apple at all, except to the extent it sways public opinion on their worldwide litigation over Qualcomm’s sketchy not-really-FRAND approach of charging a percentage of the final device price, rather than a fixed price per chip.
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Re:Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of domin... by chris_wot on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:52AM (#16224146)
That’s very interesting, I didn’t know that.

What does FRAND mean?

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Re:Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of domin... by mercutio2 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:08PM (#16227562)
Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory.

Rights holders generally have to agree to license their patents on FRAND terms to get their technology included in wireless standards, in this case CDMA and LTE.

Qualcomm’s license pricing is, unusually in the industry, a percentage of the final retail price of the final device.

Apple’s argument is that this is not, in fact, a reasonable and non-discriminatory price for a license to use Qualcomm’s patents.

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