thanks for posting dillythekid
curious how much did it cost ?
reading PDF page 8, it reminds me of xjon1600, post #48661, dated 07/19/18
A settlement is reached, and all 13 companies are smarting from having their financial knobs chewed off by UOIP, and now UOIP is in a position of great power because they still own the DOCSIS 3.0 and above patents. UOIP, if they remain will want royalties on any cable internet revenue generated from these 13 companies, which can easily total around an average of 100 million a year for each of them. that means that the holder of the patents when the smoke clears could have legitimate claim to more than 1.2 Billion a year in revenue solely for having their name on the ChanBond Patents.
Comcast (as our example) has the following options to preserve their revenue
1. Pay the royalties to UOIP, along with everyone else who doesn't own it and pass that cost onto the customer
2. Buy UOIP/Chanbond and reap the rewards of now being the ones who are being paid 12/13 of that 1.2B/year revenue stream
3. Downgrade to DOCSIS 2.0, which is not held by ChanBond, but will limit max D/U speeds to about 40Mbps/30Mbps, not only costing them millions and millions in lost equipment revenue but also making them less desirable in comparison to fiber-only lines that don't use DOCSIS 3.0
4. Spend Billions upgrading their cable networks from cable to fiber-only in order to stay competitive.
Most of these companies don't have the resources to do 3 or 4 quickly, meaning that for a decent period of time (8-16 years, minimum), 1 or 2 will be necessity. This presents an interesting conundrum, as number 2 is very desirable from a 10-20 year business strategy, and all 13 (plus maybe UOIP) can see the value in retaining these patents.
My hope is that UOIP takes the settlement, claims that they want to stay in business for 6-9 months while they foster a bidding war between the major cable providers who will in turn end up paying around $2-$2.4B for the patents.
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