You really don’t know what you are talking about, do you? Qualcomm invented CDMA and holds the patents on it. Regardless of whether a chip is made by Intel or Qualcomm or Huawei, the chip maker MUST license the patent for CDMA from Qualcomm (except, of course for Qualcomm itself) because those patents are in the INTERNATIONAL STANDARD!
The Qualcomm modem was required to connect to the Verizon network but not necessary for any other network in the world. The only iPhones or iPads with the Qualcomm modem are those locked to Verizon originally (they will also work with every other network) or those sold unlocked. Even on Verizon, the higher speeds are not functions available to any make phones until quasi-5Ge was rolled out, so why worry about it. As I said, the speed of the iPhones still bests any Android phone due to the Apple CPU being almost twice the speed of the fastest Android processor.
The whole point of this suit was that Qualcomm was refusing to license its chip patents even though they had placed them in the standard. If they did not want to license the chip designs, they should not have designated them as part of the standard, and kept it only to the basics.
Qualcomm does not own the patents for LTE or 5G and to use those, they must license them from the SEP pool, just like everyone else. . .
I’m still waiting for those patent numbers.