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China’s Antitrust Watchdog Sees Qualcomm as Having Monopoly
UKJul 25, 2014 1

China’s antitrust regulator believes US chipmaker Qualcomm enjoys a corner in a world’s second largest economy, according to a news in China’s Securities Times newspaper.

The regulator, a National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), is probing Qualcomm’s Chinese auxiliary for allegedly overcharging and abusing a marketplace position in wireless communication standards.

However, a Securities Times news did not explain either a NDRC had dynamic that Qualcomm had abused a monopolistic position.

Under China’s anti-monopoly law, a NDRC can levy fines of between 1% and 10% of a company’s revenues for a preceding year.

Qualcomm, among a world’s biggest builder of cellphone chips, could have to cough adult some-more than $1bn (£587m, €743m) in fines. It raked in $12.3bn in China for a financial year finished 29 Sep 2013, or about half of a tellurian sales.

Lawyers have pronounced a excellent could be really high if a US chipmaker fails to make concessions in a negotiations with a NDRC.

Allegations

The state-run journal pronounced Qualcomm was charging reduce royalties for patents to destabilise competitors, who have identical technology, and say marketplace share. The news also pronounced that Qualcomm, as a usually provider of chips for high-end phones, can control obvious chartering fees.

Qualcomm Chief Executive Steven Mollenkopf, who rolled out a $150m “strategic try fund” in China on 24 July, did not criticism on a matter.

Pursued by Reuters, a Qualcomm mouthpiece travelling with Mollenkopf refused to comment.

The NDRC also refused to criticism when contacted.

Qualcomm President Derek Aberle has been in hold with a NDRC over issues relating to a anti-monopoly probe.

4G Bonanza

Qualcomm had approaching additional kingship income in a arise of Chinese telecom firms, including a nation’s largest cellphone conduit China Mobile, upgrading to high-speed networks in 2014 regulating Qualcomm technology.

But Qualcomm has struggled to collect chartering income from some device makers in China, including an augmenting series of internal manufacturers it has finished small or no business with in a past, Reuters reported.

While a bulk of Qualcomm’s income comes from offered chips that concede phones to promulgate with conduit networks, many of a distinction comes from chartering patents for a prevalent CDMA mobile phone technology.

“There was some impact in a entertain that we only reported in Q3 and we design a impact will be incomparable in a subsequent entertain and potentially for a series of buliding until we can get these things resolved,” Aberle told a news agency.

Anti-Trust Probe

Analysts have pronounced China’s antitrust review could be an try to change kingship negotiations with Qualcomm, forward of a approaching rollout of 4G wireless infrastructure by China Mobile.

Shipments of 4G-enabled smartphones, many of that will use Qualcomm technology, are approaching to burst some 30% to surpass half a billion units in Greater China in 2015, according to researcher data, as opposite a 385 million units shipped in 2013.

Analysts have pronounced a inspect could be Beijing’s approach of ancillary domestic competitors.

Earlier in 2013, organisations related to a Chinese supervision invested about $3bn to acquire internal mobile chipmakers Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics.

NDRC Scrutiny

In 2013, a NDRC began probing US organisation InterDigital to inspect antitrust complaints by Huawei Technologies over technologies for wireless inclination and networks.

In 2011, a regulator imposed a $300,000 excellent on Unilever for transgression of a pricing law.

In 2009, South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission fined Qualcomm 273bn won ($265m) for exploiting a widespread position in CDMA modem chips that were after used in handsets done by Samsung and LG Electronics.

http://www.business4.net/2014/07/chinas-antitrust-watchdog-sees-qualcomm-as-having-monopoly/

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