Europe slaps Qualcomm with €1 billion fine for abusing dominance in LTE basebands

Mobile chip giant Qualcomm has been fined yet again for abusing its dominant market position, this time by the European Commission.
The precise amount of the fine is €997 million, but what’s €3 million between friends? As we have come to expect from the EC, this decision took 2.5 years to make. The investigation opened in July 2015, then escalated at the end of that year. An intriguing twist to this decision is the EC’s finding that Qualcomm directly bribed Apple, with whic