The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Qualcomm, Freescale and Texas Instruments are market leaders in the supply of chipsets to mobile handset makers with TI a major supplier to Nokia, and the new Intel-Nokia relationship will only increase the pressure. Also likely to suffer is ARM which supplies core cellphone processors to both TI and Qualcomm, according to a Reuters report.
The Nokia-Intel collaboration includes technology development and cooperation in several open source software initiatives in order to develop common technologies for use in the Moblin and Maemo platform projects, which will deliver Linux-based operating systems for their future mobile computing devices.
The two companies will co-ordinate their open source technology selection and development investments, including alignment on a range of key open source technologies for mobile computing: oFono, ConnMan, Mozilla, X.Org, BlueZ, D-BUS, Tracker, GStreamer and PulseAudio. They say: "Collectively, these technologies will provide an open source standards-based means to deliver a wealth of mobile Internet and communication experiences, with rich graphics and multimedia capabilities."
Moblin is an open source Linux operating system project hosted by the Linux Foundation that delivers visually rich Internet media experiences on Intel Atom processor-based devices including MIDs, netbooks, nettops, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), and embedded systems.
Maemo is a Linux operating system, mostly based on open source code that powers mobile computers such as the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. It was developed by Nokia in collaboration with many open source projects
Nokia and Intel say that: "Enabling common technologies across the Moblin and Maemo software environments will help foster the development of compatible applications for these devices – building on the huge number of off-the-shelf PC compatible applications. The open source projects will be governed using the best practices of the open source development model.
Intel will also acquire a Nokia HSPA/3G modem IP license for use in future products and intends to integrate Nokia's intellectual property into its own chip designs to with the aim of "developing advanced mobile computing solutions that deliver a powerful and flexible computing experience."
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