3G helps Qualcomm sales
January 23, 2003
Qualcomm reported an 83% jump in sales of chips and licensing fees
due to the adoption of its 3G mobile phone technology.
The company, pioneer of code-division multiple access (CDMA), has
deployed CDMA networks in a total of 35 operators in 17 countries
around the world.
"Qualcomm's exceptionally strong performance in the first fiscal
quarter was fueled by the successful commercial deployment of third
generation CDMA networks," said Irwin Mark Jacobs, chairman and
CEO of Qualcomm.
He predicts further growth of the company's technology in China
and India, and its BREW platform will increase 3G CDMA adoption.
"Our end-to-end BREW platform is supporting an ever increasing
variety of applications, enhancing data revenues and encouraging
an early migration to 3G CDMA. We anticipate significant growth
in China and India this year as China Unicom, Reliance InfoComm,
Tata Teleservices and other wireless operators introduce commercial
CDMA2000 1X service."
Earlier, Jacobs said at a gathering at the Pacific Telecommunications
Council in Hawaii that regulators need to rethink about the model
used for licensing spectrum for 3G licenses and suggested that many
lower bands could be opened up.
"We need to carefully examine whether we are unreasonably restricting
the use of different frequency bands," Jacobs said.
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