I guess if its not airplanes or cars, we can leave it to Silicon Valley to handle. Or is it only airplanes now?
/rant from Finland
I guess if its not airplanes or cars, we can leave it to Silicon Valley to handle. Or is it only airplanes now?
/rant from Finland
The key problem is differentiation for network access providers. The business is highly infrastructure intensive and at the end of the day you take an IP packet, ship it to an interconnect and collect monthly payments. It is hard to see how such an industry where innovation is centered around bundling of tariffs for different access technologies is able to run more fragmented network technologies in cost effective ways.
So this is imho. all support PR to justify funding general EU tech investments. The US has venture funds the EU has research grants.
And they still will be, this just lowers the barrier for entry on smaller companies who might have some beneficial R&D but dont have to sell/lease their intelectual property to the big two.
I have worked at Ericsson and they're extremely patent hungry. Thats not a bad thing in and of itself, but it reduces significant competition when you can buy smaller companies IP or block them out of the market.