Industry giants agree on LTE IPR: Qualcomm notably absent from list

The market for Long Term Evolution technology took another step forward last week as seven infrastructure heavyweights announced a framework for licensing the rights to the next-generation wireless standard.
Alcatel-Lucent, L.M. Ericsson, NEC Corp., NextWave Wireless Inc., Nokia Corp., Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications all signed on to a “mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture evolution standards.”
The somewhat opaque statement clearly had been carefully worded. The phrase “commitment to a framework” sounds good on paper while inviting speculation that, according to the clich