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News Release from: Informa Telecoms and Media
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 03 March 2006

ETSI aims to level field for next
generation radio

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ETSI is working on a radical plan to restrict intellectual property rights for patents essential to all components of the next version of the 3GPP-based radio standard.

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is working on a radical plan to restrict intellectual property rights for patents essential to all components of the next version of the 3GPP-based radio standard - Long-Term Evolution (LTE) The plan - being driven by mobile operators - is designed to get all relevant patent-holders to sign up to a pre-agreed cumulative cap of approximately 5% for royalties on the cost of all LTE equipment