BERWYN, Pa.
BusinessWire
A new federal lawsuit alleges that three of the largest telecommunications companies in the world are illegally conspiring to eliminate an innovative technology that allows police, fire departments and other emergency responders to more accurately locate mobile phone users during disasters and other emergency situations.
TruePosition, a Philadelphia-area company, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania this morning against defendants that include Sweden’s Ericsson, France’s Alcatel-Lucent, and San Diego-based Qualcomm. The lawsuit alleges the three companies “hijacked” the Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) that govern which mobile positioning technologies will be in the standard for future LTE “4G” wireless networks. The complaint accuses the defendants of blocking the adoption of TruePosition’s already existing and broadly deployed technologies into the new standards for LTE, while at the same time ensuring that their own unproven technologies were included into the new standards.
TruePosition’s technology, which has been in use in emergency response, law enforcement and national security settings for nearly a decade, is the only current high-accuracy network-based location technology that has been proven to work with sufficient accuracy to meet FCC standards, and the only one to do so reliably inside buildings. The company’s positioning technology, Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (U-TDOA), was included in the standards for the past two generations of wireless networks – 2G and 3G and has been successfully and widely deployed in the United States by two major wireless service providers to support the E9-1-1 emergency location system.
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