Qualcomm, the monopolist?. if ...

qualcomm, the monopolist?. if you can’t beat them in the open market, then you get the authorities involved. that is a routine tactic which we have seen time and again used against microsoft. well, now, the same tactic is being used against qualcomm. eight months after i wrote my piece on qualcomm, and its far reaching control of the wireless industry, six major wireless players - broadcom, Ericsson, nec, nokia, panasonic and texas instruments - are accusing san diego-based qualcomm for abusing its w-cdma patents. they have filed a complaint with european commission. specifically, the vendors accused qualcomm of offering lower royalty rates to handset vendors that buy chipsets exclusively with qualcomm and refusal to license key technology patents to other chipset vendors on fair te...