Yes. Because, if they had not agreed to the FRAND terms, they wouldn't have been able to get their technology into the standards at all. Getting your patented

Yes. Because, if they had not agreed to the FRAND terms, they wouldn't have been able to get their technology into the standards at all. Getting your patented technology into a widely adopted standard has huge benefits since you're forcing people that want to use the standard to license the patents, and the FRAND requirement is there to ensure a level playing field. Nobody is forcing any cell phone vendor to violate Apples patents, and Apple has made no attempts to get their patented technology into a standard body.