Qualcomm has had these business practices since the 90's when CDMA was first commercially released. In the beginning they were the only ones that sold the chipsets for the phones. They also made phones and many manufacturers quickly found out that Qualcomm charged a lot for the chipsets, to the point where a Qualcomm manufactured phone would be far cheaper than what the competition could sell a phone for. Eventually they sold the phone division off and just kept the chipset side.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2000/02/22/qualcomm-and-kyocera-close-agreement-terrestrial-cdma-phone-business
Then not long after, the carriers were running into Qualcomm issues in that Qualcomm was trying to keep all other vendors from making compatible equipment. Eventually Qualcomm decided to also exit that businessL
http://www.cdg.org/news/may_99.asp#ericcson5_25
Qualcomm also was pushing their 3G technology but CDMA (W-CDMA) was developed and Qualcomm did absolutely nothing in the development of it, they always made sure they collected their royalties though.
Qualcomm has a long history of the same business tactics over and over again. Why any standards body would even allow them to participate is beyond me. If they don't want to license their technology, then exclude them from future standards and let their business shrink year over year until they no longer exist.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
