With the industry giants Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson coming to a mutual agreement on keeping IPR patent royalties below 10%, what will this mean for other vendors? Many innovative manufacturing companies and innovative start ups thar rely on selling IPR may become marginalised. Is such an agreement necessary? Why didn’t Motorola and Qualcomm sign up?

Earlier today I was talking with Yves Bellago of France Telecom about spectrum availability and whether 20MHz channels are possible. It was interesting to hear that he thought that 20MHz channels might be available in the 21GHz band and possibly the 1800MHz band but also believed that operators could get the benefits of LTE with 10MHz channels.

Yves Bellago, who is talking at LTE World Summit in the latter part of May, felt that 10MHz channels will provide improved spectral efficiency, capacity and latency in all bands that LTE services will require and I myself believe these 10MHz channels may also be obtained from the digital dividend. Opinions people??