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Now for the real story on the chip ban and how it effects CDMA operators, OEMS, and etc. First, it speeds up plans for those Mobile Operators who are migrating from CDMA to GSM. Those that recently started that switch obviously are looking to steal the top CDMA operator sales of Verizon, Sprint, and etc for example US Cellular.
Second, those OEMs who manufacture dual GSM/CDMA handsets now have leverage to settle patent disputes with Qualcomm, such as Nokia. Those OEMs who depend upon Qualcomm chips are inn a bad way which sends all MVNOs in US towards the garbage heap.
Third, it forces CDMA operators such as Sprint, Verizon, and etc to loosen Mobile Operator look-in on third party applications, location aware services, and etc to regain lost customers.