Probelm solved for Vodafone and Verizon Wireless

date: January 4, 2002

Vodafone and its US partner Verizon Wireless claim they have resolved a long-standing rift over 3G technology for a key £40 billion joint venture that can dominate the US 3G mobile phone market.

The dispute threatened to make it impossible for many of Vodafone's customers to use the same phone on both sides of the Atlantic. But thanks to Qualcomm, pioneer of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, the crisis may have been averted.

The rift within the joint venture, came about because Verizon Wireless wanted to use CDMA2000 technology for its 3G services.

Vodafone was upset because the American standards would not be compatible with all the handsets used by its customers around the world, which uses WCDMA technology, Favored by most European 3G operators. But with only 45% of Verizon Wireless, it could not force its US partner to adopt WCDMA technology.

Qualcomm has now promised to make a circuit board for mobile phones that will recognise CDMA2000 and WCDMA wireless standard.

Still, the technology is unlikely to be available to the first users of 3G phones.

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