Comments on: Qualcomm Fighting Intel, The World http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Olly & The Guru, Ep. 5 – Conspiracy Theory | Symbian-Guru.com http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122965 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:19:58 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122965 [...] Qualcomm vs Intel WiMax, http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/ [...]

]]> By: Olly & The Guru, Ep. 5 - Conspiracy Theory | Symbian-Guru.com http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122964 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:52:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122964 [...] Qualcomm vs Intel WiMax, http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/ [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122963 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:04:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122963 Qualcomm does not owm the essential, fundamental wimax patents . A Canadian company calle Wi-Lan does. Wi-lan owns essential patents for CDMA-2000 , wi-fi , and Wimax. Qualcomm’s aquisition of Flarion was a huge waste of money.

Anyone thinking Wimax will be a “royalty-free” technology are mistaken. It comes down to who will aquire Wi-lan, will the Wimax royalty stream belong to Wi-lan, or if they get aquired will it go to INTEL or Qualcomm?

]]> By: Finestra Colon http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122962 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:20:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122962 The sad story is that the upcoming patent issues could have been avoided had Intel purchased Flarion. They chose to pass on that opportunity, thereby leaving all WiMAX companies subject to a heavy toll that will increase costs to everyone including customers.

The patents in question, that will be used to hamstring WiMAX, relate to mobility and the need to handoff mobile state as a mobile passes from one cell site to another. Handing off state allows for quick resuse of security settings and eliminates the need to reauthorize a user as he/she enters the new cell site. Without this, if a user needs to reauthorize at each cell, moving a voice call to the new cell and not loosing voice packets becomes impossible.

]]> By: Paul Jardine http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122961 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:21:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122961 Qualcomm are pretty much ‘the evil empire’ when it comes to wireless. This makes it sad when good technologies such as Flarion’s get taken over to the dark side.
I think companies will try and avoid Qualcomms technology wherever possible, because of their bad attitude. If that is the beginning of the end for Qualcomm then so much the better, good riddance!
I somehow feel that the story isn’t over, though. We haven’t had ‘Empire Strikes Back’ yet. Unless someone finds an antidote to Patents, then things will get pretty uncomfortable for WiMax.

]]> By: Rajiv http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122960 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:08:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122960 The OFDM patents QC owns is really intriguing. WiMAX forum has made lots of efforts to keep the esstential technology patent free. But QC has licensed out its technology to at least two providers. How this is going to affect the WiMAX providers is a big question. Will QC use the patents to sfile WiMAX?

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122959 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:00:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122959 Jacob, the WiMax network is an IP network. You can think of it as mobile DSL. Any voice will be VoIP. It will support 3rd party VoIP applications tempered only by Sprint’s interest in trying to sell their own proprietary VoIP — to which they have made no comments one way or the other (although their decision to try and enforce some VoIP patents they hold may be a clue).

]]> By: Jacob Varghese http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122958 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:26:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122958 I still not clear on this – will Sprint’s new Wimax network be used for both data and voice? Will they be using voip?

]]> By: Nitin Borwankar http://gigaom.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122957 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:45:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/qualcomm-fighting-intel-the-world/#comment-122957 Every monopoly looks invincible just before the empire starts crumbling. IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Intel … eventually Google …

Especially with Qualcomm – they are attempting to own strategic infrastructure of whole countries – that is likely to have limited success, eventually the abused start looking for alternatives …

Even patents are only useful in this generation of technology … who will own the next generation … rarely the monopolist who gets busy protecting the monopoly and can’t promote innovations that threaten the monopoly …

IBM – mainframes, Microsoft – windows/office, Qualcomm – CDMA and family, Google – AdWords …

.. nuff said …

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