If anyone needed a sign that the 5G era will not be dominated by the traditional vendors alone, they received it this week when Qualcomm said it would support Facebook’s Terragraph open source project with two of its chipset families. Qualcomm has been tightly bound up with the traditional cellular and WiFi vendors, and looked like the last chip provider which would support a movement designed to undermine their power and their prices (and therefore, potentially, Qualcomm’s own). Indeed, once upon a time, the phrase ‘open source’ would never have been coupled with the name ‘Qualcomm’. Then, some years ago, the king of proprietary technology licensing started to contribute certain software developments to open source, usually to assert its influence…