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Qualcomm accused of antitrust violations in Europe
Everything Goes
09-12-2015
Qualcomm are having a bad year. Massive fines in China, overheating Snapdragons and now the EU are on their case too over competition issues.

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“Qualcomm, one of the biggest chipmakers in the world, is said to have abused their dominant market position by offering financial incentives to both smartphone and tablet manufacturers, on the condition that they would buy their chips solely from Qualcomm.

The company was also accused of setting unfair prices below the manufacturing costs to force competitors, one of these being Icera (a wholly owned subsidiary of Nvidia Corporation), from the market. As a result of this, Icera filed complaints against Qualcomm at the European Commission in 2010.

Qualcomm has now been informed about these findings by the European Commission, and has three months to respond to the claim about illegal financial incentives in exchange for exclusivity, in addition it has four months to respond to the claim about their aggressive pricing points, after which the commission will decide if Qualcomm is guilty or not. If found guilty, the company can count on a fine of several millions.”

http://www.neowin.net/news/qualcomm-...ules-in-europe
Amelia Field
14-12-2015
Originally Posted by wikipedia.org: In July 2009, South Korea's antitrust watchdog fined Qualcomm a record Won260bn ($207m) for "unfair" business practices related to its chipset sales, sparking strong protests from the company. The Fair Trade Commission accused Qualcomm of abusing its dominant position in the Korean market for CDMA mobile phone chips by charging higher royalties on handset makers that bought modem chips from its competitors, while offering rebates to customers who bought products mainly from the US group, the regulator said in a statement.[59:
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In 2009, Qualcomm and Broadcom entered into a settlement and multi-year patent agreement, ending all litigation between the companies.[60]

In 2012, a federal probe was launched into the company’s compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars companies as well as individuals from bribing foreign officials to gain business.[61]

In 2014, China's anti-monopoly regulator announced that Qualcomm was suspected of overcharging and abusing its market position. In February 2015, China moved to fine Qualcomm a record $975 million for tactics the government claimed hurt consumers.[62][63]

On July 16, 2015, the European Commission announced that it had opened two antitrust investigations into Qualcomm's behavior in the field of baseband chipsets for consumer devices.”

Yap, it's indeed. It has lots of legal issues.
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