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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the cell-tower-on-park-place dept.

The US Justice Department on Thursday asked for a hearing on Qualcomm's possible punishment if a California judge agrees with the Federal Trade Commission and declares the chipmaker to be a monopoly -- largely because it's worried about competition in 5G.

In a statement of interest filed in US District Court in San Jose, California, the DOJ's antitrust division asked that "in the event that the court finds liability on any of the FTC's claims, the court should order additional briefing and hold a hearing on issues related to a remedy." The DOJ said that the court should carefully consider what remedy to carry out because it's worried about the US' position in the race to 5G.

"There is a plausible prospect that an overly broad remedy in this case could reduce competition and innovation in markets for 5G technology and downstream applications that rely on that technology," the US wrote. "Such an outcome could exceed the appropriate scope of an equitable antitrust remedy. Moreover, it has the distinct potential to harm rather than help competition."

The US stressed, though, that it hasn't taken a position on the merits of the FTC's claims.

Qualcomm declined to comment. The FTC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

[...] After years of work on 5G networks, hyped as the life-changing foundation for augmented reality, telemedicine and other tech trends, the super-fast wireless technology is being rolled out. Carriers are turning on their networks, and virtually every major Android handset maker has touted plans to launch a 5G device this year. The vast majority of those devices will use 5G modems from Qualcomm.


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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday May 05 2019, @10:15PM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday May 05 2019, @10:15PM (#839400) Homepage Journal

    Jimmy told me something so interesting. People don't know this, China has been at Peace since 1979. But U. S. A., in the whole existence of our Country, we've only had 16 minutes of Peace. 16 minutes, so amazing. And frankly, very sad. Our great, and very brave Soldiers -- the men, and the women -- are dieing all over the World. And, coming back from all over the world. With legs blown off. Arms blown off. Nuts blown off. Blinded. Hearing totally shot. Massive Brain damage. And, the P.T.S.D. If anyone remembers George Carlin (RIP!!). He said, so interesting. We used to call it Shell Shock. And then, you couldn't say that anymore. Because you say it and you're thinking about the shells exploding everywhere. So they changed it to Combat Fatigue. Guys getting tired in the middle of a battle, not great to think about either. So they started calling it Operational Exhaustion. What's that right? And now the latest is the P.T.S.D. The Post Tramatic Stress Disorder.7 Same thing but it sounds very fancy. Some of our best people are getting killed and very badly damaged. But it's worse than that. It's worse, because we're loosing TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS on all these Wars. While China is doing so many smart things with their people, their money. They did 3 Georges Dam and that's making so much electric for them. Electric that doesn't stop when the sun goes down, when the wind stops blowing -- or blows too hard. Unlike the very foolish Green New Deal. China did the Seeds on the Moon. So simple, they put the little seeds in a planter. And they put some water in there, the seeds sprouted. Something a child could do. Nobody did it on the Moon before, they were the first. They beat us. And, they're beating us to 5G. I said, we've got to have the most modern digital. The 5G and even the 6G. We're in the Age of Computer, Age of Digital. And it's so important to Economy. But, the Fake News Media laughed at me, saying we don't have the 5G, don't have the 6G. THAT'S WHAT I SAID! We don't have it, China is getting it. They're getting the 5G. And they're working, I assume, on the 6G. While we're still on the 5GE. Sounds better, it's not better. It's worse. I told Bill Barr, make sure we come out ahead on this one. By any means necessary. MAGA!!!!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @03:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @03:52AM (#839495)

    Too long, didn't read