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

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Qualcomm financial results helped by strong 3G growth

April 26, 2004

Qualcomm announced its second quarter fiscal 2004 results ended March 28, 2004. Revenues were $1.2 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2004, up one percent sequentially and 20% year-over-year. The second quarter fiscal 2004 net income was $488 million and diluted earnings per share were $0.58, up 39% and 35% sequentially and 374% and 346% year-over-year, respectively.

"Our financial results reflect the strong acceptance and rapid global growth of 3G CDMA," said Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm. "Consumers and enterprises increasingly recognize the benefits of CDMA-based networks, with the number of subscribers now exceeding 200 million. Early 3G CDMA entrants continue to perform well. KDDI, the first CDMA operator in Japan, announced its sixth consecutive month as the leading Japanese operator in net subscriber additions, and now has approximately 14 million subscribers on its 3G network. Better coverage and new handsets have accelerated WCDMA (UMTS) uptake and resulted in over 4 million cumulative subscribers in Japan and Europe at the end of the quarter. NTT DoCoMo, the largest Japanese operator, added approximately 724,000 subscribers to its 3G FOMA network in March 2004, for a total of over three million WCDMA subscribers. In South Korea, local number portability and compelling 1xEV-DO handsets contributed to the highest monthly net additions in two years and a 1xEV-DO base that now exceeds 6.4 million subscribers. The United States CDMA market continues to grow, benefiting from local number portability and the popularity of camera phones and color screens. Finally, we experienced continued growth in China and India and strong growth in Brazil, propelled by low-priced MSM6000-based entry level phones."

"This quarter, we matched the prior quarter's record high by shipping approximately 32 million MSM phone chips; however, worldwide demand for our chipsets exceeded our supply, particularly the MSM5100 and MSM5500. We anticipate supply to better align with demand over the course of the next two quarters.

"Research and development continued at high levels. Both the CDMA2000 1X Revision D and the 1xEV-DO Revision A standards were completed, each supporting peak data rates of 3.1 Mbps on the forward link and 1.8 Mbps on the reverse link. We publicly demonstrated CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Gold Multicast, allowing multimedia content to be sent simultaneously to many users; MediaFLO, an end-to-end product and service delivering multiple channels of video conveniently accessed by an on-screen channel guide; and Quality-of-Service features supporting greatly enhanced performance for Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VOIP), push-to-chat, and video telephony. We believe these and other projects will drive further expansion of 3G CDMA, subscriber migration from 2G systems, and higher revenues."

Qualcomm estimate the CDMA phone market to be 152-160 million units in calendar 2004.