Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
- previous news
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Nokia and Samsung Partner for 4G
April 28, 2003 - source: BWCS
The world’s number one and number three mobile handset makers have entered
an agreement to cooperate in the development of future cellular technologies.
Finland’s Nokia will work closely with the South Korean manufacturer Samsung
in creating 3G and 4G wireless products. Crucially, the alliance brings
together the key proponents of the rival CDMA (Samsung) and GSM (Nokia)
standards.
Perhaps most significantly, the cooperation marks a further progression
of Nokia’s strategy to establish itself as a leading player in the CDMA
market. In recent months Nokia has publicly asserted that it intends to
become one of the top two suppliers of CDMA handsets. The company has
recently restructured its manufacturing operations in China with the primary
aim of increasing shipments of CDMA products for the domestic Chinese
and overseas export markets.
Nokia’s renewed focus on CDMA would indicate that it expects the Qualcomm-backed
technology to represent a much bigger threat to GSM in 3G and 4G markets
than it has done in the second generation. The apparently smooth and rapid
deployment of next-generation CDMA2000 networks in South Korea, Japan
and the US has been in sharp contrast to the cumbersome evolution of GSM
to W-CDMA via GPRS and EDGE in Europe.
As attention now turns to emerging 3G markets in South America and Asia,
where low CAPEX is of prime importance, the CDMA case is only likely to
strengthen. In addition, in markets such as India and Brazil, CDMA2000
1xRTT is now being rolled out by fixed line telcos as a wireless local
loop mobility solution, thus posing a 3G-by-the-back door threat to wide
area cellular services.
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3G Motorola A920
