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You've had a few answers already. They could start by adding a daily-fine for each day they don't pay the fine; then interest on top. Then, you can imagine all
by Aissen 9y ago
You've had a few answers already.
They could start by adding a daily-fine for each day they don't pay the fine; then interest on top. Then, you can imagine all smartphones with a Qualcomm chipset suddenly being banned from a 510M+ people market. All companies in Europe being barred from doing any business with Qualcomm; all Qualcomm IP nullified in Europe. Imagine having any of your officials not being able to travel inside Europe and cross-extradition countries, forever. The list goes on.
- ttoinou 9y agoThat would be great. People would go to Andorra or Switzerland to buy their smartphone ;)
- detuur 9y agoMuch more likely is that a Chinese manufacturer will rip off Qualcomm's IP for "EU market only" phones. EU phones can still use Qualcomm technology but without them ever seeing a dime for it until they pay their outstanding fines. This is of course the situation driven to the extreme and "not paying market regulator fines" is a line that probably only exists in the economics handbooks of freemen-of-the-land type loonies.