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> Standards require all participants to license at a FRAND rate.

Clearly you didn’t read the article. There’s an entire section about Qualcomm not issuing FRAND licenses.

@aey used to work at Qualcomm according to their resume. So, take that for whatever you think it’s worth.

Yep, worked at qcom. I think they should charge what the market could bear, like apple charges consumers :)

They haven’t lost a FRAND case yet.

In the ideal world the phone would be like a PC, and you could buy an iPod touch from apple and swap in the qualcomm 5g modem or the intel one.

Apple pays qcom $14 bucks for the modem. In the PC world I think qualcomm would be able to price theirs closer to 50 compared to intels.