Qualcomm Faces Antitrust Complaint in South Korea

11:05 am on April 21, 2006 | Category: Business, Cellular, Law, Regulation

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Qualcomm’s legal difficulties are mounting steadily, with mobile multimedia software developer, Nextreaming, filing an antitrust complaint against the chipmaker with South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission.

Nextreaming is joining what its legal council refers to as a “global campaign” against Qualcomm, with both Korean and European regulators already investigating the company’s practices.

Lawyer, Youngjin Jung, a representative of Nextreaming, said that Qualcomm’s practice of linking chipsets with its own proprietary multimedia software has damaged his client’s business. He claims that the company is leveraging its dominant position as a chipmaker to unfairly further its multimedia software applications, which in turn “makes it difficult for Nextreaming to develop more innovative solutions.”

Jung’s law firm has experience with this sort of case, after successfully representing RealNetworks in its antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.

Qualcomm, however, insists that its business practices are 100% fair and above board. “We have earned our commercial success through innovation, technological leadership, years of hard work and sustained R&D investment, and by consistently offering the best, most advanced chip sets and software at competitive prices,” claimed the company’s president, Steve Altman, in the statement earlier this month.

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