BlackBerry patents could be worth 5 billion dollars for a single buyer

With prospects a possible sale, BlackBerry has as assets of greater value its portfolio of patents, according to analysts. The failure of the Canadian company to pull business business mobile phone made its approximately 9,000 patents good more interesting on the table, while its leaders will review its future options.

According to Chris Marlett, CEO of MDB Capital Group, one of the reasons that give value to its patent for the sector is that they represent "the last great available portfolio [for the wireless]", said AllThingsD.

Microsoft, Google, Apple and Samsung among potential buyers

He believes that this asset of 9,000 patents about has a value of 2 for $ 3 billion, if it is purchased by a consortium, and could be worth up to 5 billion if it is bought by a single purchaser, under the pressure of a bidding battle. Potential buyers include Microsoft, Google, Apple and Samsung.

Some of these patents have been acquired by BlackBerry as a member of a consortium that bought 6,000 patents to Nortel during its bankruptcy filing.

According to Reuters, the purchase of other assets of BlackBerry beyond its patents could be problematic because of the difficulties of its mobile business, which could cost around $ 2 billion.

On the other side, despite its drastically reduced market share, BlackBerry is still a firm grip on the market through BlackBerry Enterprise Server and high global visibility, which, according to Marlett, could make the interesting company for a buyer like Microsoft.

"Someone like Microsoft could find correct to pay 4-5 billion dollars for the business, and 4 to 5 billion for intellectual property, which would set a purchase price to $ 8 to $ 10 billion," said Chris Marlett at AllThingsD.

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BlackBerry patents could be worth 5 billion dollars for a single buyer

With prospects a possible sale, BlackBerry has as assets of greater value its portfolio of patents, according to analysts. The failure of the Canadian company to pull business business mobile phone made its approximately 9,000 patents good more interesting on the table, while its leaders will review its future options.

According to Chris Marlett, CEO of MDB Capital Group, one of the reasons that give value to its patent for the sector is that they represent "the last great available portfolio [for the wireless]", said AllThingsD.

Microsoft, Google, Apple and Samsung among potential buyers

He believes that this asset of 9,000 patents about has a value of 2 for $ 3 billion, if it is purchased by a consortium, and could be worth up to 5 billion if it is bought by a single purchaser, under the pressure of a bidding battle. Potential buyers include Microsoft, Google, Apple and Samsung.

Some of these patents have been acquired by BlackBerry as a member of a consortium that bought 6,000 patents to Nortel during its bankruptcy filing.

According to Reuters, the purchase of other assets of BlackBerry beyond its patents could be problematic because of the difficulties of its mobile business, which could cost around $ 2 billion.

On the other side, despite its drastically reduced market share, BlackBerry is still a firm grip on the market through BlackBerry Enterprise Server and high global visibility, which, according to Marlett, could make the interesting company for a buyer like Microsoft.

"Someone like Microsoft could find correct to pay 4-5 billion dollars for the business, and 4 to 5 billion for intellectual property, which would set a purchase price to $ 8 to $ 10 billion," said Chris Marlett at AllThingsD.

4G: 1 billion subscriptions in 2017

Here is who will give the balm to the heart telecom OEMs who today are in turmoil. Success for smartphones did not weaken causing mechanically an explosion of consumption data and therefore the networks need still more powerful wireless broadband.

According to a study by the world's number one mobile networks, the number of subscriptions taken out by owners of "smartphones" will reach 4.5 billion by 2018, compared with 1.2 billion in 2012. At the end of last year, the Swedish group not only forecasting 3.3 billion subscriptions to the horizon 2018.

At the same time, data traffic will experience global growth multiplied by 12 by late 2018 due to the increasingly widespread use of online video.

Its progress should be in the order of 60% per year by late 2018. "On some networks, video consumption totalled on average 2.6 GB / subscription / month. However, despite the popularity of the video, it is not necessarily on heavy data applications that users spend the most time. With, in some cases, an average of 85 minutes per day, social networks are indeed the most popular applications of consumers", says Ericsson.

 

Hence, even the obligation, operators to accelerate the transition to 4 G (LTE). In the first quarter, 20 of the 110 million new mobile subscriptions are 4G. And "in 2018, almost 60% of the world's population can benefit from LTE services. According to our forecasts, the LTE subscriptions should exceed one billion in 2017 ", explains Douglas Gilstrap, Senior Vice President and Director of the Ericsson strategy.

There are operators who should be reassured because 4G must enable them to finally promote their pipes in a context of price declines.

 

The OEM recalls also quite rightly that "the performance of networks is the main factor of customer loyalty, to the quality/price ratio.". Message received from the operators?

In total, Ericsson recorded 6.4 billion mobile subscriptions in the first quarter in the world, average penetration of 90%. It reaches 132% in Central Europe and West and only 56 per cent in India.

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