Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)
I am not a radio engineer but I understood CDMA wasn&#x27;t even a very good technology.<p>American CDMA was not competitve with internationally used GSM (well, no competition existed those days so America kept using it.)<p>3G (WCDMA) was not a great standard. Very energy-inefficient. Operators are happy to shut it down.<p>In 4G it&#x27;s no longer used. What about 5G?<p>So Qualcomm being the Microsoft of radios? Dominating the world with 2nd class technology and first class shady business practices?