The history of standards and operators living with
these standards is littered with companies trying
to cash on equipment which isn't compatible.
This includes those trying to infect the standard with
patents.
The QCOM trick of SpinCO is exactly what the operators
are most pixxed about, the global, fat cat, tax collector
and the independent no-nothing village idiot.
Basic fact is that it is the operators who bring in the
money, cent and penny, minute by minute, end user
by end user, contract by contract..
Few, if any, operators would not agree that something like
QCOM (disruptive technologies) should not happen again,
and SpinCo is a joke.
It is one thing to collect patent licenses as a constructive
organization for the carriers, another thing to try to
limit their bussines decisions and on top of it
try to collect a tax on it.
And a third thing to trust that US must have a seat
at the table of global telecommunication.
Thats the Q-fly in the global ointment, the closing
window between GPRS and 4G.
Ilmarinen.
P.S. No need to remember the Motorola brigade of
lawyers of the 80s. |
