Posted in CDMA, Nokia on Jan 15th, 2008
Joel West Posted something interesting today on sdtelecom.blogspot.com
The first few lines….
Nokia has a new EV-DO capable CDMA phone that has passed FCC certification. This means that it could once again sell phones to the majority of the US market that uses CDMA, beyond the low-end 2135 candybar sold by Metro PCS.
Nokia would have a hard time shipping a new UC CDMA phone given the expiration of its patent license with Qualcomm. On the other hand, this would be consistent with the UT report that the two parties are trying to bring all pending IPR disputes to resolution in a single venue.
Still, the one dissonance comes from CEO Paul Jacobs in a Bloomberg interview:
Jacobs, 45, said Qualcomm is not making any progress in its talks with Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, in another dispute. The companies are at odds over how much Nokia should pay to use Qualcomm technology under a new licensing agreement, a dispute that has […]
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Posted in 3G, China, TD-SCDMA, CDMA on Jun 20th, 2007
Joel West wrote an interesting post today on
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In February 2001, I made my first (and thus far only) visit to China, to research Qualcomm’s efforts in China. The result was an MBA teaching case “Qualcomm in China,” published in two parts by Ivey Business School (A and B) and in a slightly different form by the Asian Case Research Journal (DOI: 10.1142/S0218927502000257 and DOI: 10.1142/S0218927502000269). This case is the basis for the China market entry discussion in the 2005 book The Qualcomm Equation.
When I finished the visit (and the research), the one thing I was itching to follow up on was China’s plans for its own 3G standard, TD-SCDMA. It was obviously a big issue: direct efforts by the Chinese government to delay 3G deployment and protect access to its market to help Chinese firms develop a national (and nationalistic) technology, to help Chinese firms gain privileged market access and (as with DVDs) pay less in foreign […]
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Posted in Qualcomm, 3G, CDMA, W-CDMA on Jun 19th, 2007
Joel West wrote an interesting post today on
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Once upon a time, the Europeans and Japanese that strategically allied to make a common W-CDMA standard in hopes of pre-empting the Americans and dominating the world, but that didn’t happen.
The whole global roaming argument seemed like a nonstarter, as a few people said at the time. Sure, Europeans wander around within the EU and perhaps to Mediterranean beaches, but how many go to the US or Asia? How many Americans travel enough outside North America to care about GSM (W-CDMA) coverage? I can’t imagine it’s more than 5%.
But without a single standard, there was an interest in having dual-mode phones — more from the CDMA subscriber sides than the GSM side, since there are lots of W-CDMA only countries and only a few that are exclusively or dominated by cdma2000. Thus for years, Qualcomm has been planning and now offering MSM chips that support both the W-CDMA and […]
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Posted in Apple, CDMA on May 24th, 2007
Joel West wrote an interesting post today on
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USA Today reports that Apple has not only given AT&T a five-year exclusive for the iPhone, but it has promised not to develop a CDMA version of the phone for that entire period.
I believe that’s a big mistake for Apple, since they’re limiting themselves to the 27% of Americans who use AT&T (née Cingular) and excluding the 49.9% that use CDMA. (It’s not clear whether gray market European iPhones will be available for T-Mobile subscribers). This also reduces their bargaining power in Japan, and raises questions about their Korean entry strategy.
But the big impact is that Apple has guaranteed that for the next 5 years, Verizon and Sprint will promote whatever iPhone-killers are offered by LG, Samsung and Motorola. I haven’t looked at their mobile phone advertising budgets, but I’d guess that these two (with T-Mobile) will be outspending AT&T by 2:1 or more.
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