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Qualcomm once again under EU's anti-trust scanner |
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The European Commission is said to have opened a new investigation into telecommunications company Qualcomm for alleged non-competitive activities. Acting on a complaint by the UK based privately held telecommunications company Icera, reports said, investigations are presently at a preliminary stage while Qualcomm issued a statement saying that the complaint is similar to previous allegations. In November 2009, the Commission had abandon a four-year long investigation into similar allegations when Ericsson and Texas Instruments withdrew their complaints. Nokia and Broadcomm had earlier settled their cases with Qualcomm. The previous case was filed in 2005 by six complainants, including Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic and Texas Instruments, over Qualcomm's royalty fees for licensing patents and tactics that prevented companies from entering the market for chips used in mobile phones.  Founded in 2002, Icera has design locations in the UK, France, North America and China and customer engineering and sales offices across Asia, Europe and the US. The company has raised $250 million venture funding and is backed by leading European and US venture capital companies. Reports said it had been met with considerable success in the market in the short time it has been in existence. Its“software-defined chipsets for the highest performance mobile broadband devices” are incorporated into dongles, and are said to hold considerable promise given the rapidly evolving telecommunications technology landscape. |
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