sisco on mobile standards

[Erik Josefsson <ehj@cleosan.com>]

While Ericsson may want to protect their softwarisation of old 
techniques, it seems Cisco is heading the other way around:

from

   http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/hd_121603b.html?CMP=ILC-001

//:
Bringing Internet packet-based networking standards to mobile devices is 
difficult, however. John Waclawsky, a technical leader of the Cisco 
mobile wireless group, says cellular phone operators come from the 
traditional telephone industry, which tends towards vertically 
integrated, rigid, circuit-switched technologies. Packet-based Internet 
technologies, on the other hand, are much more loosely integrated, 
distributed and modular, making for more rapid deployment and better 
interoperability.
:
Cisco is trying to educate the mobile phone industry on IP-based 
communications and its value in creating an open, standards-based 
infrastructure for supporting data delivery over mobile phone networks. 
With such an infrastructure in place, data from the Internet can then 
much more easily reach mobile users. Cisco believes an IP-based 
architecture for mobile data delivery will provide lower costs, reduced 
time to market, and create new business opportunities, Waclawsky says. 
Cisco also believes the open standards of the Internet will encourage 
more companies to develop applications and technologies for mobile data 
services.
:
"We view mobile phone networks just as we would another branch of a 
network," Waclawsky says. "Mobile phone networks serve a similar purpose 
as cable modems or DSL lines-they connect users to the Internet. They 
are very much that "last mile" link to users, only in this case a mobile 
link. These wireless networks should be a seamless extension of the 
Internet, and IETF standards are a way to ensure that happens."
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Is this vision not made possible by the Parliament article 6a:

"... the use of a patented technique... for... ensuring conversion of 
the conventions used in two different... networks so as to allow 
communication and exchange of data content between them, such use is not 
considered to be a patent infringement."

???

It sounds like a reworded RAND and RF w3c licence to me.

//Erik