Qualcomm to combat european antitrust charge at November 10 listening to

by way of Foo Yun Chee try to fend off ecu antitrust prices at a listening to on Nov. 10 that it used anti-competitive techniques to squeeze out a rival,  human beings acquainted with the problem stated on Friday.

the eu commission may also take Qualcomm's arguments at the listening to into account inside the case, which could put off the commission's choice and viable great in opposition to the business enterprise if it's far discovered to have infringed ecu antitrust policies.

Qualcomm asked the closed-door hearing nine months after the ecu fee accused it of forcing British phone software maker Icera out of the marketplace through selling positive baseband chipsets under price between 2009 and 2011.

Icera turned into later received by way of Nvidia Corp.

members at antitrust hearings commonly encompass senior officers from the fee's competition unit and different relevant departments, officials from countrywide competition government, opponents and interested organizations.

Qualcomm, which faces a 2d antitrust rate of creating unlawful bills to a chief client for solely the usage of its chipsets on account that 2011, did not ask an oral listening to for this example, the human beings stated.

fee spokesman Ricardo Cardoso and Qualcomm, which supplies Android smartphone makers and Apple Inc, declined to comment.

The company may want to face a high-quality as much as $2.5 billion or 10 percentage of its 2015 sales, if discovered guilty of breaking ecu regulations.