{"id":993257,"date":"2026-02-18T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993257"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:23:36","slug":"qualcomm-says-uk-lawsuit-over-smartphone-chip-royalties-will-be-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/qualcomm-says-uk-lawsuit-over-smartphone-chip-royalties-will-be-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm says UK lawsuit over smartphone chip royalties will be withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm on Tuesday said a London lawsuit alleging it had abused its dominant position to force Apple and Samsung to pay inflated royalties will be withdrawn. <\/p>\n<p>The British consumers&#8217; association called \u200cWhich? had \u2060brought the \u2060case on behalf of around 29 million people who bought iPhones or Samsung devices since 2015. <\/p>\n<p>Which? had said consumers were entitled to up to 480 million pounds ($652.03 million) in compensation, with its arguing at a trial last year that Qualcomm made Apple and Samsung pay inflated royalties even \u2060if its \u200cchips are not used in a device under a worldwide so-called no licence, no chips policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm on Tuesday said a London lawsuit alleging it had abused its dominant position to force Apple and Samsung to pay inflated royalties will be withdrawn. The British consumers&#8217; association called \u200cWhich? had \u2060brought the \u2060case on behalf of around 29 million people who bought iPhones or Samsung devices since 2015. Which? had said consumers were entitled to up to 480 million pounds ($652.03 million) in compensation, with its arguing at a trial last year that Qualcomm made Apple and Samsung pay inflated royalties even \u2060if its \u200cchips are not used in a device under a worldwide so-called no licence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}