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Phone manufacturers have to pay 4G licensing?



You will be surprised how much the 4G licensing are, they are based on % of final sales. That is why the BOM cost people continue to use in Apple Products are pointless. The amount of money from a phone feeding into the patents system is insanely large.

Hence, Another reason why Apple do not have LTE in their Macbook yet.




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