It was a nominal fine for the chaebol over allegations of price fixing through pressuring its resellers in the federation.
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It was a nominal fine for the chaebol over allegations of price fixing through pressuring its resellers in the federation.
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The Federal Trade Commission and many of Qualcomm's customers want to take the chipmaker to task. Qualcomm's response? 'Defective'
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Qualcomm is accused of engaging its clients by coercing agreements that would make it difficult to do business with other chip providers.
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As Apple claims that Qualcomm has been strangling the brand behind iPhone, Qualcomm claims that Infinite Loop isn't playing fair.
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This time around, Samsung hasn't infringed upon Apple's patents, but Infinite Loop is still the plaintiff against chipmaker Qualcomm.
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The Federal Communications Commission initially liked the idea of letting ISPs charge nothing to stream select content. The commission now has determined that it doesn’t like seeing the content providers zero-rate their own internet service for their own content.
In letters to AT&T and Verizon (which we have just linked), the FCC has expressed concern over the cellular carriers’ practices in offering their content — through DIRECTV NOW and go90, respectively — free to stream for their customers without incurring data charges. The commission believes that by limiting zero-rating opportunities to their own franchises, the two telcos come into breach with the 2015 Open Internet Order — part of the order’s goal is to “increase choice and lower costs for consumers.”
Essentially, while it costs nothing on a consolidated basis for AT&T and Verizon to zero-rate their own programs, that would not necessarily the case for any other content provider wishing to participate in zero-rate activities with the two companies.
Using AT&T’s figures for DIRECTV NOW, it would cost a content provider over $1.50 every month to zero-rate a minute of video streamed daily over LTE. Multiply that cost over multiple shows watched per day by many own-brand customers and the bill may prove too burdensome for competitors to shoulder.
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Jon Wilkins has requested that both companies provide specific usage data for its services as well as competing services on its network and/or for its customers, including how much of the traffic is zero-rated. Wilkins also asks for expectations of consumers’ use of all services regarding internet and content. Responses are due on December 15.
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It’s been a long time coming, with the European Commission looking into various controversial business practices of Google some feel discourage competition for several years now. The executive body of the European Union made many accusations under more than one supervisor, but the current Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, ...
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