Qualcomm Inc. said it signed a deal to license its OFDM/OFDMA technology to Hamburg, Germany-based 4G Systems to produce modem cards and routers for wireless broadband access.
The deal appears to be part of an effort on Qualcomm’s part to establish a stable of vendors with royalty-bearing license agreements in OFDM/OFDMA technology, perhaps to bolster its argument that it possesses essential patents for the technology. OFDM forms the basis for WiMAX and other high-speed wireless technologies.
The agreement with 4G Systems extends to external modems and products for machine-to-machine communications and telematics.
4G Systems is a supplier and developer of HSDPA applications for mobile data transfers over UMTS networks. The company develops hardware and software for WLAN, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA.
Qualcomm inks another royalty-bearing OFDM deal
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