SAN DIEGO, United States—Korean carrier KTF, formerly known as Korean Telecom Freetel, has commercially launched Qualcomm's data applications services based on the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW).The premiere launch of BREW service comes less than a year after Qualcomm introduced the platform. Qualcomm...
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 covering over 70 percent of the country, including the three largest cities, Sao Paulo, Rio...
MOSCOW—The CDMA technology, which must abandon the 470 MHz to 872 MHz band in Russia by 2010, began to move down to the 450 MHz band, and a second carrier was licensed to build a CDMA 400 MHz network in the country.The St. Petersburg-based...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with handset vendor Sanyo to develop new handsets based on the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless.Qualcomm also signed similar deals with Mexican carrier Iusacell, toy maker Mattel, the World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc....
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology Inc. said it will collaborate with Qualcomm Inc. to bring enhanced wireless services, such as multimedia messaging, voice solutions and mobile Internet solutions, to Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless-enabled devices."As a result, users worldwide will get a next-generation user experience—one that...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it rolled out the first samples of its third-generation Mobile Station Modem, or MSM6050, which it claims to be the first baseband integrated circuit on 300mm wafers.The company produced the device in collaboration with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd.The...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has licensed Haier Group to develop, manufacture and sell cdmaOne and cdma2000 1x/1xEV equipment.Haier will pay Qualcomm royalties at the same rate, irrespective of the licensed CDMA standard it implements.
SEOUL, Korea—South Korean mobile-phone makers are considering legal action against Qualcomm over the royalty rates they must pay for Qualcomm's CDMA patents. The vendors are upset by the more favorable royalty rates Qualcomm has given to Chinese CDMA manufacturers.Telson Electronics and six other vendors...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The likelihood of Qualcomm's cdma2000 technology being deployed in Europe has encountered a fresh hurdle after the U.K. Radiocommunications Agency (RA) claimed that a consultation paper concerning any change of spectrum use would need to be circulated to interested government ministers.These moves...
Qualcomm 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 than a few CDMA fixed-wireless networks, mainly in Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe.The...
TORONTO-As the handset manufacturing business gets tougher because of declining demand, more phone makers are looking at joint ventures as their economic salvation and perhaps their best strategy to catch number-one handset supplier Nokia. In October, after much fanfare, Ericsson and Sony launched a...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The bankrupt Dolphin Telecom is being positioned as a vehicle for Qualcomm to enter the European market. The U.S.-based equipment developer is the major backer of U.K.-based Inquam that is bidding to acquire the Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) radio spectrum owned by...
BEIJING—Qualcomm Inc. said it signed an agreement to allow KT Freetel to launch its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless to end users in South Korea on cdma2000 Ix networks.Both companies signed the agreement at the PT/Wireless &Networks Comm Beijing 2001 conference.
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it has shipped more than 400,000 OmniTracs mobile communication units to date, which provide two-way data messaging, automatic vehicle positioning, and dispatch and back office capabilities.
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said some top device manufacturers, a game developer and a Canadian carrier have signed memoranda of understanding to join its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless Platform.The companies include Japanese phone manufacturers Hitachi Ltd., Panasonic and Toshiba, game developer Sega Corp., Canadian...
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BEIJING—China's second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, plans to put its CDMA network in commercial use early next year. So far, 24 million yuan (US$2.9 million) has been invested to build more than 14,000 base stations.Motorola, Lucent, Nortel, Ericsson and Qualcomm recently demonstrated their CDMA...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has begun production shipment of its MSM5100 third-generation cdma2000 1x chipset and system software."The MSM5100 chipset and system software is pin-compatible with the proven MSM3300 chipset, decreasing time-to-market for handset manufacturers, and is designed with the flexibility to support...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says it has developed the first Bluetooth version 1.1-compliant cdma2000 1x commercial chipset with baseband Link Manager Protocol, Logic Link Control and Adaptation Protocol, Serial Port Profile, Service Discovery Protocol and Generic Access Profile."Our MSM5100 chipset and system software solution with...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. says customers around the world are implementing more than 43 designs of its cdma2000 1x handsets and personal computer cards based on its MSM5105 chipset."By working closely with our partners in North America and around the world, we have ensured that...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Air Prime Inc. said it raised $40 million in a series C round of equity financing.The investment was led by RBC Capital Partners Telecom Fund and includes investments from Qualcomm Inc., GE Equity, LibertyView Equity Partners, NB Capital Venture Partners, Omninet Capital,...
SAN DIEGO, United States—Qualcomm said that Korea Telecom Freetel is the first carrier worldwide to introduce data application services based on its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) mobile Internet platform."KTF expects to roll out commercial BREW-enabled applications and services to subscribers in November...
