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Jockeying for position in the yet-to-be-real 5G market continues, with Huawei announcing that it's going to demo a new air interface at Mobile World Congress in March. The Chinese giant will be showing off techniques it calls Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) and Filtered-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (F-OFDM). …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Payoff?

    FRAND royalties would hardly begin to compensate them for $600 million in development costs. But that's not the point, or the reason companies spend money like that to develop technology that must be offered on FRAND terms to be allowed into a standard. Huawei would earn a lot of international prestige for themselves and for China, and the value of that is such they'd probably be willing to license it royalty free. They'd also be experts in this technology, and have a jump on everyone else (especially rival Qualcomm) in developing chipsets that implement this.

    Assuming it is as good as they say it is, and someone else doesn't come up with something better.

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      Re: Payoff?

      "the new air interface design can effectively improve spectral efficiency, increase connectivity, and reduce latency"

      Presumably cut and pasted from the western company that Chinese hackers stole the designs from...

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      1. mhenriday
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        Re: Payoff?

        Any evidence for that «presumption», «Anonymous Coward» ? Thought not....

        Henri

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      Re: Payoff?

      The big payoff is in the RAN business: a core network upgrade for 5G for just one network may cost $1Bn. Huawei aren't doing this for the device royalties but they aren't doing it for the prestige either.

      That is why the two serious contenders for 5G proposals are Hauwei and Ericsson. It isn't handset vendors. Come to Barcelona next week if you want to find out more.

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    the "big payoff" comes when the Chinese Government - via Huawei - gets even more of its technology into the key communications networks of the west, giving them remote access and control on a level which far surpasses anything so far achieved by GCHQ or the NSA.

    Think - they wouldn't need to hack the system, their taps would be embedded in the design of it through inclusion of the Huawei technology

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      That's only true if US/Euro carriers buy Huawei chips in their phones or cellular towers. They might still buy them from Qualcomm, except Qualcomm would be working with someone else's designs and the loss of royalties would make them a smaller player than they are today.

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