engineer,
<< In other words, if Qualcomm didn't give the Europeans their IPR for free, which was one of hte 5 items, then VOd would not play ball. Sounds pretty one way to me. Very glad that Q refused. >>
In other words is correct.
In other words, no.
IP, cross licensing, patent pooling were never mentioned in the conversation I referred to. Refusal to license was mentioned, however.
IP, btw, was not one of the 5 principles although it was referenced in the same whitepaper that Qualcomm published.
You might remember that VOD, along with DoCoMo was (still is) one of the key carrier drivers of the UMTS standard., if not the key carrier driver.
So reread the 5 principles (unless you have them memorized) and consider why Qualcomm's intransigent insistence on the majority of those 5 principles, on a single converged standard based on them, might have been anathema to VOD, and FT, and TIM, and BT, and ...
- Eric - |
