Great article to get your blood boil, and I recommend you check it out, but this one liner really got my waving my fist in the air:
It all adds up, and the result is that 3G W-CDMA mobile phones are more
expensive than they could be. Estimates vary, but operators, vendors
and analysts reckon that up to 25 percent of the wholesale value of the
basic 3G W-CDMA phone is made up of royalty charges, said Pyramid
Research analyst Ozgur Aytar.Source: Reuters
This is sheer idiocy.