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Does anyone know who would be making the chipsets that come after LTE? Do patents for each round of network technologies change which companies make them? Or do

Does anyone know who would be making the chipsets that come after LTE? Do patents for each round of network technologies change which companies make them? Or does it stay the same? Really, I'm wondering what happens whenever 5G or whatever comes after 4G/LTE comes around. And in how long approximately that will be.

ksec 9y ago
5G is more like an evolved 4G. So nothing changed much. (Qualcomm still biggest Winner ).
ajnin 9y ago
Qualcom got working on 5G technology as soon as 4G was finalized. I'm not an expert but it seems that the standards are written to be very close to the technology that Qualcomm is developping in parallel, if only because they demonstrate feasibility. They have a tremendous amount of headstart and expertise, which makes it very hard for new actors to enter this market. Also the amount of overlapping patents between successive technology generations is probably a big deterrent as well.
newusertoday 9y ago
percentage of royalties would reduce from current ~5% in LTE to 2.5-3% in 5G.many operators have just invested in upgrading to gigabit LTE so next rollout should happen after they recoup their current investments so probably by 2020.
mschuster91 9y ago
> Does anyone know who would be making the chipsets that come after LTE? Even if some competitors will make 5G chipsets, they still will have to build in everything from good ol' GSM over EDGE over HSxPA to 4G in addition, because what use is a phone (or IoT gadget!) that only works in major urban areas where 5G deployments will happen first? All this will have to incorporate Qualcomm patents at the least, and most likely also Qualcomm chipsets. Hell when I drive to the German country side I more often than not only have EDGE, and the situation in developing countries is even more dire.

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Does anyone know who would be making the chipsets that come after LTE? Do patents for each round of network technologies change which companies make them? Or do

by skinnymuch 9y ago

ksec 9y ago
5G is more like an evolved 4G. So nothing changed much. (Qualcomm still biggest Winner ).
ajnin 9y ago
Qualcom got working on 5G technology as soon as 4G was finalized. I'm not an expert but it seems that the standards are written to be very close to the technology that Qualcomm is developping in parallel, if only because they demonstrate feasibility. They have a tremendous amount of headstart and expertise, which makes it very hard for new actors to enter this market. Also the amount of overlapping patents between successive technology generations is probably a big deterrent as well.
newusertoday 9y ago
percentage of royalties would reduce from current ~5% in LTE to 2.5-3% in 5G.many operators have just invested in upgrading to gigabit LTE so next rollout should happen after they recoup their current investments so probably by 2020.
mschuster91 9y ago
> Does anyone know who would be making the chipsets that come after LTE? Even if some competitors will make 5G chipsets, they still will have to build in everything from good ol' GSM over EDGE over HSxPA to 4G in addition, because what use is a phone (or IoT gadget!) that only works in major urban areas where 5G deployments will happen first? All this will have to incorporate Qualcomm patents at the least, and most likely also Qualcomm chipsets. Hell when I drive to the German country side I more often than not only have EDGE, and the situation in developing countries is even more dire.