Apple fee to Qualcomm estimated at $6 billion, with $9 per iPhone sold in royalties The FTC sued Qualcomm in 2017, and the case went to trial in San Jose two years later. Qualcomm’s practices prevented rivals from coming into the market, drove up the price of phones and in flip damage customers, who faced greater handset costs, the FTC stated. In early December 2018, a Chinese courtroom ordered 4