Actually, it was not me, but a friend I quoted who's been in broadcasting longer than I have.
Cliff Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
I think it was Cliff who said it. All this noise about 4G is purely about patents. Consumers should wise up and ignore the hype, the nonsense about "10X speed over 3G." Which is false, or at least it could be false. There is absolutely no technical reason why 4G would be faster than 3G, certainly not in terms of the air interface. PERHAPS in terms of being purely packet switched, which 3G can also morph into. It's all about patents, the patents are going to the East, seems like a great opportunity to not give a d*mn. Bert ------------------------------------- http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/05/19/ipr-balance-power-shifts-eastward-lte.htm IPR balance of power shifts eastward in LTE Samsung and LG will outshine Nokia and Ericsson, though not Qualcomm By CAROLINE GABRIEL Published: 19 May, 2010 The balance of power in intellectual property is shifting eastwards in LTE, with Samsung, LG and Huawei building their patent portfolios aggressively. Two recent analyst reports have endorsed this view. ARCchart found that Samsung was likely to be the number one patent holder in LTE handsets, particularly in the key technologies for the 4G platforms, OFDMA and MIMO - also vital to WiMAX, where Samsung and Intel share the IPR crown. Samsung is second only to Qualcomm in these patent areas, says ARCchart, and has more than double the number of patents held by Nokia and Ericsson combined. In 3G, Nokia, Ericsson and Qualcomm were the dominant IPR owners. Research by Informa has also seen the emergence of Samsung as a key patent holder, along with LG and Huawei. Principal analyst Malik Kamal Saadi commented: "While Interdigital and Qualcomm are clear leaders in the global LTE patents portfolio with 21% and 19% market shares respectively of the total number of patents, Huawei comes in third position with 9%, Samsung in fourth with 8%, and Nokia, LG, and Ericsson in joint fifth place, each with 7% market share." He also says the three Asian majors have invested heavily in LTE patents and in making these essential to the standard, and therefore more valuable. This will give them a strong trading position when negotiating cross-licensing deals with other patent holders. This, in turn, could help Samsung, in particular, reduce the cost of its devices because it will have fewer net royalty fees to pay. Huawei, however, has an IPR power base that remains very Chinese. Informa says that, of the 182 LTE patents contributed by the company, 178 are registered in China and only a few could currently be described as essential. About 60% of LTE patents from Qualcomm and Nokia, and 40% from Samsung, could be described as essential so far.----------------------------------------------------------------------You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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