CDMA

MOSCOW—A major Russian investment company, Sistema-Telecom Financial Corporation, said it will sell the Personal Communications (SONET) CDMA carrier as the project has no future in the country. “We shall sell …

TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts, United States—Hoping to take advantage of the growth potential in China, U.S.-based Starent Networks signed a deal with Eastern Communications Company to provide its next-generation wireless infrastructure equipment …

BEIJING and TOKYO — China’s fixed-line operator China Telecom has started offering a CDMA service in Shenzhen, a prosperous city adjacent to Hong Kong. The service, called “Shihua Tong,” will …

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BUCHAREST, Romania—The Romanian cellular operator Telemobil launched on 7 December a nationwide voice and high-speed data network in its 450 MHz spectrum based on CDMA technology. Telemobil will initially introduce …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Openwave Systems Inc. said South American wireless carrier Telesp Celular launched its CDMA 1xRTT network, which is built on the Openwave Mobile Access Gateway. “Telesp Celular’s high awareness …

BEIJING—China Unicom expects nine out of the 19 firms licensed to produce CDMA handsets to be able to start production by the end of this year and be able to …

BOYNTON BEACH, Florida, United States—Ending months of speculation, Motorola announced it is exiting the ReFLEX paging business by the middle of next year, an industry the company played a major …

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. says SK Telecom of Korea has selected its OMAP-based McubeWorks reference designs for 2.5G and third-generation cdma2001x networks. The company says SK Telecom plans “to conduct field …

BEIJING—China Unicom, which will launch commercial operations of its CDMA network early next year, hopes average revenue per user (ARPU) will be more than the 92 yuan (US$11.11) generated on …

HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s six mobile operators announced interoperator short message service (SMS) will become available beginning 3 December. Hong Kong’s telecom regulator, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), hailed …

BEIJING—NEC is having talks with Matsushita Communications Industrial to explore details of establishing an advanced cellular phone handset joint venture focusing on the Chinese market. “Consideration is under way to …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Centennial Digital Jamaica has become the third company to bring mobile cellular service to Jamaicans. Chief Operating Officer James Beneda said the company’s use of CDMA technology will allow …

BEIJING-Samsung Electronics said it formed a joint venture with Shanghai Bell to develop, produce and market CDMA systems in China. The Chinese government approved the new company, named Shanghai Bell …

BEIJING—China’s Hisense Group launched its CDMA handset production line on 22 November at its plant in Qingdao. It is China’s largest with an annual production capacity of 1 million handsets. …

BEIJING—China Unicom is expected to announce in the coming days that it will start CDMA services in January. The listed arm of the China Unicom Group is expected to lease …

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Inquam, a venture company backed by Qualcomm, has marked its presence in Indonesia through an acquisition of Mobile Selular Indonesia (Mobisel) shares. Prior to the Inquam acquisition, the share …

SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has licensed its CDMA technology to TCL Holdings Co. Ltd. in China to to develop, manufacture and sell cdmaOne and cdma2000 1x/1xEV subscriber equipment. “This …

LOS ANGELES-Qualcomm Inc. said it has committed $266 million of equity financing in support of Vesper, a Brazilian CDMA wireless carrier. “With a footprint of more than 120 million pops …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Communications Corp. announced the release of its first GPS-enabled handset, the 9155GPX. The new CDMA tri-mode phone is Web-enabled, equipped with 1XRTT and Bluetooth capability and includes gpsOne-based …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Japanese mobile operator KDDI announced the 10 millionth mobile subscriber on its cdmaOne network has registered. The network, Japan’s first CDMA digital cellular network, and the infrastructure were …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has successfully demonstrated a wireless voice call via a third-generation UMTS-compliant handset equipped with Qualcomm CDMA Technologies’ MSM5200 Mobile Station Modem W-CDMA chipset and system …

RALEIGH, N.C.-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and MobileAria announced a partnership to promote in-vehicle Bluetooth adoption. MobileAria said it will support and market Sony Ericsson’s T39 and T68 GSM/GPRS phones, and …

Qualcomm Inc. has been looking for a European opening for its CDMA technology for some time. But so far, the technology has been effectively shut out in the region, other …

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