Apple will offer a license for the nano-SIM with no royalties

As it became known last week, Apple has faced in the next confrontation with other manufacturers of mobile equipment. Because of the controversy about the design of a new generation of SIM-cards, known as nano-SIM was a conflict in the first place with Nokia, Motorola and RIM. Companies have their own views on what should look like the new standard, and both sides assume that their offer is better than the competition. At the same time Apple's design more appealing to European operators, whose opinion may outweigh. This has led to fears that as the owner of the patent, Apple will receive royalties from those who set his face to the type of SIM-cards to use. That in turn will eliminate the possibility of fair competition. However, according to the FOSS Patents, Apple is not going to commercialize the use of the new standard. As reported, the company proposes to use the license on a free basis, with no royalty payments for the use of nano-SIM-cards and related patents in the devices. Thus, it appears that Apple has no financial interest in implementing the new standard is not available and the competition will be fair. At the same time there is no evidence that in the near future the introduction of this type of SIM-cards will be either mass-how. Usual mini-SIM-cards are still the most widespread, emerging products with micro-SIM models are single, but by switching to the standard Apple's number is sufficiently large.