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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (293)	3/17/1998 7:12:00 AM
From: Darren DeNunzio	Read Replies (1) of 3178

A new player (I think) to VoIP internet.siemens.com Any comments would be appreciated. Also can anyone direct me to any information regarding a licensing fee for ITU G.729. Do companies using the codec have to pay licensing fee. And if so how much. Here is an old post that I ran across. sauce.mmlab.uninett.no ================================ A few people have pointed out that, basically, G.723.1 and G.729 have similar licensing costs. However, whether it's a 100k or 220k (or a total of $450k for both codecs), this puts it way out of reach of most any academic research organization that wants to distribute their applications for free. Although I don't have the documents here, to get G.723.1 requires 2 things: - the $100K gets you licenses from 4 of the 8 IPR holders; - to get licenses from the other 4, you can: - negotiate separately with each of them (not sure of who they all are but includes ATT and Lucent); or - you can buy software from Lucent for $120K and they will also indemnify you against any claims brought by the other 3 of this group this was stated in a separate paper presented at the VOIP meeting. So with this path, you also need to spend $220K. ============================ Has this been resolved ? Do companies have to pay the fee ? Thanks.

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