There are reasons for the price increase of mobile phones. In the future, for a domestic mobile phone priced at 3,000 yuan, Qualcomm will first charge a 5G licensing fee of 150 yuan.
This is no joke. Although the 5G era has not yet arrived, Qualcomm is eager to announce the licensing rate for 5G:
1. Only use core patents, single-mode 5G mobile phones The patent applicable rate is 2.275%, and multi-mode mobile phones are 3.25%;
2. Using core patents + standard patents, single-mode 5G mobile phones are charged 4%, and multi-mode mobile phones are charged 5%.
The rogue thing about Qualcomm is that the 5G patent licensing fee is 2.275%-5% based on the selling price of the mobile phone.
Since multi-mode mobile phones are generally available on the market, every domestic mobile phone will have to pay Qualcomm a 3.25% or 5% patent fee in the future.
For a 5G full Netcom mobile phone priced at 1,000 yuan, Qualcomm will charge a licensing fee of 32.5 yuan to 50 yuan;
If a flagship mobile phone sells for more than 3,000 yuan, generally it can only Using Qualcomm's chips and technology, in this case, a licensing fee of 150 yuan per unit will be charged at a rate of 5%.
Only Huawei can escape Qualcomm’s slaughter, because Huawei has a certain say in the 5G field, holds some technology patents, and has the ability to negotiate prices.
Other domestic mobile phones are not so lucky and can only pay a 5% patent fee. According to authoritative data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, domestic smartphone shipments in 2017 were 461 million units:
Excluding Huawei and Apple, the average price of mobile phones of other brands is 2,000 yuan, and domestic manufacturers have to pay annual Patent fees exceed 30 billion.
Huawei Ren Zhengfei also said: 5G will exist for a long time and will not be replaced in a few years like 3G and 4G. In the next ten years or so, Qualcomm has been the overlord of mobile communications patents. One can shake its position.
After Qualcomm’s 5G patent fees were announced, a voice began to circulate on the Internet: “With Qualcomm destroying the city all the way, Huawei’s 5G can be declared a failure.”
It is too early to talk about who will dominate 5G, because 5G is different from 3G and 4G and is not an independent whole.
5G consists of three major scenarios, namely:
1. eMBB (3D/UHD video and other large-traffic mobile broadband services);
2. mMTC (large-scale Internet of Things business);
3. URLLC (unmanned driving and industrial automation and other businesses).
It doesn’t matter if you can’t understand these English, as long as whoever can have the absolute right to speak in the above three scenarios can lead the development of 5G.
Let’s look at the first eMBB first, which is divided into control channels and data channels. Qualcomm and Huawei both want to compete for control of the two channels, which represents the game and competition between China and the United States.
After many days of competition, Huawei’s Polar finally became the uplink and downlink coding scheme for the control channel; Qualcomm’s LDPC became the uplink and downlink short code scheme for the data channel.
Therefore, Huawei and Qualcomm are evenly matched on eMBB.
There is another little episode here. Some time ago, there was a big topic "Why Lenovo didn't vote for Huawei on 5G standards", and netizens were blaming Lenovo.
In fact, Lenovo basically played no role in the entire meeting. It had no independently published technical results, and the voting weight was low and was not determined by the number of votes.
To summarize it from the perspective of the media Sanyi Life: When everyone was not optimistic about Huawei Polar, Lenovo chose LDPC, which both Qualcomm and Huawei supported; and when Chinese companies united to support Polar, Lenovo followed Let’s support Huawei together.
So judging from the meeting minutes, Lenovo really didn’t cause trouble.
In addition to eMBB, who will lead the other two scenarios of 5G? It has not yet been determined, there will be another vote in June.
So, Huawei is still working hard.
Looking back on the past decade or so, my country's communications industry has gone from being significantly backward to leading the world. Few people know the hardships it has gone through.
In the 1G era, China's communications industry was still blank. It paid a heavy price to use foreign communications technology, and it did not dare to hope for any control.
In the 2G era, the world is divided into two camps: GSM and CDMA. Europe and the United States compete with each other. We can only watch from the sidelines without a say and pay high patent fees.
At the beginning of the 3G era, we were still toddlers and worked out a 3G standard ourselves, which became one of the three major 3G standards in the world. Because the technology is immature, no one is willing to use it, and only China Mobile pays the bill, which is particularly sad.
In the 4G era, we learned from the lessons of 3G, worked hard to expand market share, integrated FDD and TDD into a standard branch, and also invested in chip production, gradually surpassing European and American countries.
In the 5G era, there is only one unified standard in the world. We have begun to seize food from the tiger's mouth, participate in negotiations in the formulation of standards, and work hard to gain the right to speak in key areas.
It is conceivable that China will definitely have a place in the future 5G era. This is not only the efforts of hundreds of thousands of Huawei employees, but also the joint efforts of our 1.3 billion people.