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To: BoonDoggler who wrote (71530)11/24/2007 4:15:58 PM
From: quartersawyer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 197327
 
Qualcomm has joined the vendors' GSA and the operators' NGMN.
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Among the NGMN objectives:

A new IPR regime must be developed to support the licensing of NGMN technology in a manner which leads to much greater transparency and predictability of the cost of IPR for operators, infrastructure providers, and device manufacturers

which is potentially close to what Jeffrey sees: The more impacting issue with LTE is the proposed cumulative royalty cap

But LTE will be backed up by and convergent with 3G networks, so can 4+% hold?
According to slide 74, all the licensees minus three are in 'til 2017.