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Viewsroom: America’s topsy-turvy regulators

Viewsroom

Reuters

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Qualcomm lost a lawsuit brought by one DC overseer, even as the DOJ intervened, while $26 bln T-Mobile US-Sprint merger is getting yanked around by agencies with opposing views. Doing business is hard when agencies no longer act in unison. Plus: Is Luckin Coffee going cold? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

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0:20.0

This Breaking Views podcast is sponsored by Refinerative.

0:24.0

The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Royder's News.

0:33.8

Welcome to the views room. I'm Anthony Curry from Reuters Breaking Breaking Views and with me is my co-host Jennifer Sabre.

0:39.3

Morning Jen.

0:40.3

Hello.

0:41.3

Later in the show, our Hong Kong team will be stirring in the trade dispute to a financial taste test between Starbucks and China's luck in coffee.

0:50.3

We kick off though with some worrying news for companies in the United States.

0:53.3

It increasingly looks like your regulators are acting in ever more random ways.

0:58.4

With me, I have Rob Siren and, of course, Jen in the studio.

1:01.5

And on the line from San Francisco is Gina Chon.

1:05.3

Welcome to you all.

1:07.8

Rob, I'm going to start with you.

1:10.1

Let's start with.

1:10.8

So Qualcomm is one of the big companies that's been caught in the net of this, this randomness of regulators this week.

1:17.0

Just tell us quickly what happened and why.

1:20.1

So Qualcomm's a company.

1:21.1

They make chips which connect phones to network.

1:24.4

So if you want to speak or if you want to transmit data, you use either Qualcomm

1:29.1

chip or the companies that produce the chip use Qualcomm patents. Right. And what a judge said was

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