revlis: It is the manufacturers, not the operators, that would license the product. Although I am sure major operators have a say in what features they want in a phone.
"A key initiative for us has been to create a comprehensive product offering that we can offer to terminal unit manufacturers in a complimentary fashion with our strong patent portfolio," noted William J. Merritt, InterDigital's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The recent licensing of legacy GSM/GPRS/EDGE technology from Infineon Technologies AG (Infineon) completes a high value dual-mode protocol stack that both expands the target market for our product offerings and creates new synergistic offerings for handset licensees."
That is what I meant but they used the specific number 10. I think 10 operators have tested the dual mode stack.
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