US giant Qualcomm's, which is against the background of declining demand for smart phones all the more begins to depend on royalties for the use of clients of their know-how, is already be attacked by Chinese and American antimonopoly. Chinese authorities have even managed to get a special license conditions for local smartphones producers , but the problem of underreporting numbers in the reports is still not decided.
In 2014 antimonopoly investigation in South Korea ended with a verdict KFTC Commission to impose a fine on Qualcomm in the amount of $ 854 million. And calls for a change in licensing practices. According to Korean antimonopoly, Qualcomm's charge with smartphone manufacturers who buy branded modem solutions, unreasonably high fees for a set of technologies, which they do not enjoy to the fullest. Moreover, other developers Qualcomm modems or does not give license for the use of their know-how at all or offers a very limited range of technologies. KFTC recommends Qualcomm on their own initiative to revise the terms of license agreements with manufacturers of smartphones and modems developers.
Qualcomm has already expressed disagreement with the decision of the KFTC and vowed to appeal it, as the amount of the fine. Market participants have expressed a timid hope to reduce the cost of the components that use Qualcomm technology, and the stock price of US corporations fell by 1.7%.