Published: November 8, 2017
Publisher: Financial Express
“The next iPhone may well be the first one without a Qualcomm chip, given the bruising battle between Apple and Qualcomm over the latter’s royalties. While doing that is tricky given how Qualcomm technology drove most improvements in wireless technology —the 3G and 4G we use today is built on Qualcomm technology—how does it matter if the phone continues to deliver? Actually it does, because it lies at the heart of availability of low-cost phones and, in a recent consultation paper on telecom equipment manufacturing, Trai has raised the same issues on the royalty model followed by firms like Qualcomm, Ericsson, etc.”