Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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Datang and Qualcomm talk over patent issue
November 12, 2002
Datang recently asks Qualcomm to hold a negotiation to determine
if its newest self-designed 3G TD-SCDMA includes patent of Qualcomm
or not.
Qualcomm has been holding the line that it owns the standard basic
patent for TC-SCDMA. Now, another two 3G standards (W-CDMA, CDMA2000)
are also based on Qualcomm's patent, which means Qualcomm is able
to make 2%-6% of patent charge for each 3G equipment.
Datang, the developer of TD-SCDMA, and its partner Siemens expressed
that Qualcomm's patent does not play a leading role in TD-SCDMA
standard. But the negotiation means Datang wants to seek compromise
with Qualcomm, because the Chinese Authorities previously once insisted
that the TD-SCDMA's patent completely belongs to Datang Telephone.
Siemens' attitude is very clear that TD-SCDMA so far has not adopted
any patent of Qualcomm, but it is possible to use it for commercial
purpose in the future.
Datang is looking forward to the negotiation, but Qualcomm indicates
that it has not been informed by Datang about license of TD-SCDMA.
Analysts predict that TD-SCDMA's final market share may account
for 10% to 50%, and Qualcomm would charge USD 860,000 million to
USD 1.4 billion from China's market for its patent.
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3G Motorola A920
