Qualcomm's Victory Over The EU Commission

Qualcomm won against the EU commission for anti-competitors practice accusation.

Qualcomm's Victory Over The EU Commission - Asiana Times

Highlights

Qualcomm doesn’t have to pay a $1 billion fine.
Qualcomm didn’t commit any anti-competitor practice.
EU commission faced its second major defeat.
Apple, Google and Facebook are under investigation.

In 2018 EU commission fined Qualcomm a $1 billion fine over the acquisition to monopolise the chip business with Apple.

EU Commission said Qualcomm is paying billions of dollars to Apple to only use its chip in their iPhone and iPad. This behaviour is strictly prohibited by EU commissions and they fined Qualcomm $1 billion.

Qualcomm’s fine is one of the examples of the fine imposed by the EU over anti-competitive practices. They have many investigations underway to stop the act of anti-competitive practices.

Apple, Google and Facebook are currently under investigation.

The commission didn’t find any evidence of payment made to divert Apple from using any other LTE chips in their iPads or iPhones.

The main concern for the commission was between 2014 and 2015 iPads and iPhones. They didn’t find anything suspicious or wrong with the exchange of money between Apple and Qualcomm.

The EU competition can further appeal to the EU Court of Justice (CJEU), Europe’s highest court. The EU Commission has said they will look into the judgement and its implication.

Qualcomm has not responded to any of the EU Commissions’ studies reports after the case win.

With this defeat, the EU commission will need to carefully assess the cases before filing the case and fine. This is their second major loss. They lost to Intel in January for the same kind of appeal that Intel is suppressing their competitor AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) for a fine of 1.06 billion euros.

It’s been a tough year for the EU commission as they have lost another major case. They will need to study harder into the details of the case before filing the case now.