EU court confirms 239 mln euro fine for Qualcomm
China DailyXinhua | Updated: 2024-09-18 23:16 Qualcomm logo is seen in this illustration taken on May 8, 2023. BRUSSELS -- US technology firm Qualcomm will have to pay a fine of 238.7 million euros for abusing its dominant position, the European Union's General Court ruled on Wednesday. The European Commission originally imposed a fine of 242 million euros on Qualcomm in July 2019, saying it held a dominant position on the market of chipsets at a worldwide level at least from the start of 2009 till the end of 2011. The Commission said that Qualcomm had abused its dominant position in those years by supplying some of its Universal Mobile Telecommunications System chipsets to Chinese Huawei and ZTE at below-cost prices with an intention of eliminating Icera, its main rival at the time. The court pointed out that the Commission substantiated Qualcomm's intention to eliminate Icera from the market "by providing both direct and indirect evidence."