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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ADVANCED 3G SERVICES CONTINUE TO INCREASE DATA REVENUE, BOLSTER VOICE REVENUE AND REDUCE CHURN

February 21, 2007

The CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced that 3G operators who have deployed CDMA2000 1xEV-DO are driving the introduction of innovative mobile applications, while reaping the benefits of increased data and voice revenue, improved customer satisfaction and loyalty, and reduced churn. For most leading CDMA2000 operators, mobile data (including SMS) now accounts for 15% or more of their total average monthly revenue.

"Mobile communications has entered another phase in its evolution, where an operators' revenues and competitiveness is determined by the breadth and quality of data services they offer," said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG. "The time-to-market advantage of the CDMA2000 evolution path is enabling operators to drive this trend and grow their businesses by offering a large selection of popular services. The adoption of these services has enabled enterprise customers and consumers to witness a substantial improvement in productivity and an enhanced lifestyle."

Subscribers are becoming more dependent on technology advances such as video content, music downloads, multimedia messaging, and mobile TV. CDMA2000 operators are witnessing an increasing demand for these services. For example, in the fourth quarter of 2006, $1.4 billion or nearly 16% of Verizon Wireless' total wireless service revenues came from data services, up 63% year-over-year. Likewise, in the third quarter of 2006, Sprint Nextel collected a record high of $7.80 per user for data services. In the same quarter, Telecom New Zealand increased its mobile data revenue by 34.2% to NZ$51 (US$34.2) million, boosted by offering services such as push-to-talk, multimedia messaging, Song ID, caller tunes and ringtones. In Korea, approximately 6 out of every 10 people use mobile data services on nearly a daily basis and SK Telecom collects more than 26% of its total monthly revenue from data services, more than three-quarters of which comes from non-SMS services. In Japan, KDDI collected an average of $28.30 per user per month for their EV-DO (WIN) mobile data services, contributing to 30% of its total revenue. Up to 78% of KDDI's EV-DO users have signed up for their simplified flat-rate plans, which are very popular for those subscribers who switched to KDDI after Mobile Number Portability (MNP) was introduced.