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How did the U.S. lose out on advanced telecom design and manufacturing so badly?
by jdkee 7y ago
How did the U.S. lose out on advanced telecom design and manufacturing so badly?
- tpmx 7y agoGSM started in Europe. Qualcomm continued betting on CDMA way too long. It ended up with Ericsson buying the infrastructure part of Qualcomm back in 1999: https://money.cnn.com/1999/03/25/europe/ericsson/ https://money.cnn.com/1999/03/25/europe/ericsson/ https://www.wired.com/1999/03/ericsson-qualcomm-accord/ https://www.wired.com/1999/03/ericsson-qualcomm-accord/ The americans won the really lucrative (and powerful - witness Trump/Brexit) application layer though (e.g. Google/Facebook/Amazon) so they shouldn't feel that bad.