Qualcomm sees strong cdma2000 growth, W-CDMA in 2005

date: May 30, 2002

Despite holding the patents and IPRs to much of the information needed for 3G, Qualcomm could be in trouble. The firm has reaffirmed its lowered outlook for full-year pro forma revenue growth of 4-8 per cent and pro forma earnings of 90-95 cents a share, based on sales of 80 million to 85 million CDMA phones.The pro forma outlook excludes costs of the company's strategic initiatives.

Irwin Mark Jacobs, chairman and CE, Qualcomm expressed how well cdma2000 was doing. He said: "Rapid uptake of 3G cdma2000 1X services continues with nearly 9 million reported subscribers in South Korea and Japan alone, with other operators now ramping up subscribers."

Jacobs went on to say that he believes it will take until 2004 or 2005 for W-CDMA as a competing technology to gain widespread usage. But W-CDMA holds more value for the firm. "We'll probably get more [royalty revenue] from W-CDMA [initially] than from cdma2000 because the equipment will be more expensive to begin with," he said

Chief Financial Officer Bill Keitel also agreed that cdma2000 was off to a very strong start."We are quickly moving into 3G ," Keitel said. "We've passed the point where 50 per cent of our chip shipments come from 3G chips. We expect that to accelerate in the June and September quarters."

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