Okay boys and girls, its conspiracy time!

We have a great service in Thailand which goes by the name of CDMA2000-EVDO.

Some of the hardware provided for this network is provided by Huawei of China.

Deplyoing such a network requires licensing cost, some of the licenses for CDMA technology are owned by Qualcomm.

CDMA2000 has had a competing technology which sprung out from GSM technology, and this is generally refered to as WCDMA-UMTS.

It now appears that UMTS is winning, perhaps not such a big loss for Qualcomm though, since they also has some licensing ownership inside the UMTS technology.

I do know that CAT telecom and Huawei had some issues on the deployment of this, could this has been related to licenses which Huawei or CAT telecom needs to pay to Qualcomm?

And more importantly, is Qualcomm having an unfair advantage in owning parts of two technologies which are competing?

Huawei is an emerging player in the global market, and it is Chinese, could Qualcomm because of this have any agenda to try to damage the position of Huawei in the market?

Could it have a vested interest in halting the growth of Huawei thus favoring the two competing companies in which they are culturally more adapted to (Cisco, Juniper.)

Could it be that to this end Qualcomm obfuscated licensing issues, or raised the price unfairly to create slowdowns in deployement?

I do wonder if we will ever know the answer to this.

Or could it just be that everyone is fed up with Qualcomm, and WCDMA-UMTS is the lesser of all evils, giving Qualcomm a smaller piece of the pie.

I am sure that official correspondance would show the normal corporate cloudtalk.

Lawsuits seems to be part of corporate life.

Specifically this following one is interesting, and is in some way almost directly related to what i am talking about above:

Broadcom vs Qualcomm - unfair CDMA monopoly

Some other general ones aswell:

Broadcom vs Qualcomm 2

Nokia vs Qualcomm

Qualcomm is otherwise known as creator of the nifty e-mail program Eudora, with which i started my Internet communicating days.