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...a lot of Motorola's patents are related to underlying voice and networking technologies. Unless Google X is proposing to come out with a replacement for GSM (...and it's not) that stuff isn't changing.


GSM is over by 2017/2018 for carriers stateside. Where will the patents for these topologies and compression schemes be then? That is proverbially around the corner corporately.


I think your estimates are a bit optimistic - that aside - the GSM RAN will be going away, not the GSM core - that lives on for UMTS and LTE.




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