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Qualcomm Accused Of Anti-competitive Behaviour
News The patent for CDMA2000 is exclusively owned by Qualcomm, while W-CDMA, a different flavour of 3G, is only partially derived from Qualcomm's technology. Qualcomm is an intellectual-property powerhouse in the mobile industry, having pioneered the...
[October 31, 2005, 8:20]
Orange Launches 3G Handsets
News Orange claims to have the best 3G network in the sense that its W-CDMA 3G technology and GSM 2G network are well-integrated, meaning fewer calls are supposed to be dropped compared to rival networks from 3 and Vodafone as end users stray out of...
[December 6, 2004, 14:30]
3G Gets Closer To EDGE
News EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) is sometimes referred to as 2.75G, sitting in the evolution path between 2.5G GSM/GPRS networks and 3G networks of the W-CDMA -- or UMTS -- flavour. Jarmo Leivo, Nokia Networks director for W-CDMA...
[February 21, 2003, 13:12]
3G: We're Off To See The Future!
News The major telecoms providers are struggling to demonstrate that W-CDMA technology is already out of the R&D labs and is making an appearance in real life. An agreement has been reached between existing GSM equipment suppliers, mostly European, and...
[August 23, 2000, 14:43]
Qualcomm Provides Super 3G's Missing Uplink
News The reality is that Qualcomm has been instrumental and taken a leadership position in moving W-CDMA [the base technology for 3G] to upgrade itself with HSDPA and now HSUPA," he told ZDNet UK on Wednesday.
[July 20, 2006, 11:15]
The Lessons Of DoCoMo
News However, its early introduction of 3G -- in the form of a version of the W-CDMA standard currently being rolled out around much of the world -- encountered problems, so there is a cautious approach to DoCoMo's next stage, so-called 3.5G technology...
[February 16, 2005, 11:25]
New Wi-Fi Challenges 3G
News A cellular technology called w-CDMA (wideband code division multiple access) sends broadband access to rural areas, including the entire island of Maui in the Hawaiian archipelago. Usually, w-CDMA signals travel all over, bouncing off trees or...
[September 30, 2002, 7:50]
Challenges In Developing And Deploying 3G Systems
White Papers The main components of a UMTS W-CDMA System are explained and a five stage testing strategy is defined. Most major wireless Service Providers are beginning technology trials, but production networks will not be rolled out until 2001 at the earliest.
[February 9, 2004, 22:47]
A 3G Success Story - The Launch Of FOMA
White Papers It is the world's first W-CDMA network and confirms once again Japan's leadership in implementing new technology. NTT DoCoMo has based the launch of FOMA, their first 3G network, on the Gemplus USIM card, GemXplore 3G, making Gemplus the only...
[July 21, 2005, 0:00]
The Road To 3G
White Papers Technologies including PDC, cdmaOne (IS-95), TDMA (IS-54, IS-136), GSM, GPRS, EDGE, cdma2000 (IS-2000), cdma2000 1xEV-DO (IS-856), and W-CDMA (UMTS FDD) are discussed. The technical aspects of each technology are discussed with an emphasis on...
[March 23, 2005, 2:00]
Mobile Standard Comes In From The Margins
News Yet in the past few months, carriers have announced plans to launch networks that use both EDGE and the 3G standard w-CDMA. Many newcomers to the "oceans of EDGE, islands of w-CDMA" deployment philosophy, as Deutsche Bank put it in a research note...
[January 27, 2004, 14:25]
South Korea: World's Most Advanced Mobile Technology?
News Bernd Eylert, chairman of the UMTS Forum, called the findings "encouraging", even though Korea is more closely associated with the CDMA mobile communications technology and not GSM, created in Europe.
[September 4, 2002, 8:06]
3G: The Great Wireless Mystery
News Qualcomm's CDMA is one of a number of technology standards that have been developed to power the next generation of handheld devices. There's tremendous pressure to have 3G come to market," said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDMA...
[March 5, 2001, 8:40]
Drowning In Wireless Spaghetti
News The major European 3G standard is called W-CDMA (W for Wideband — it's really CDMA-FDD — but it's also called UMTS and GSM GSM — Another name for W-CDMA, belatedly adopted at the height of the CDMA confusion a — The original WiMax.
[November 1, 2005, 12:00]
WiMax Joins 3G Family
News G solutions based upon technologies such as W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, and TD-SCDMA were already included in the IMT-2000 set of standards," said Resnick. The decision to approve the WiMax Forum's version of IEEE Standard 802.16 as an IMT-2000 technology...
[October 19, 2007, 17:57]
Europe And Japan Sprint Ahead In 3G Race
News After five years of famously slow progress, third-generation (3G) networks using standards with cumbersome names like UMTS or w-CDMA are now available throughout the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Japan and Korea.
[February 23, 2004, 13:20]
Cracks Appear In Qualcomm-Nokia Truce
News In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the US provider of mobile phone technology has revealed that the licensing agreement which allows it to use Nokia's patents on integrated circuits and a parallel agreement that permits...
[April 24, 2006, 16:00]
Qualcomm Launches Third Suit Against Broadcom
News The complaint was filed in a federal court in San Diego, and alleges that Broadcom misappropriated trade secrets concerning Qualcomm's "development and marketing of W-CDMA baseband integrated circuit products and the multimedia capabilities of...
[March 29, 2006, 16:45]
TD-SCDMA May Not Make Olympics Deadline
News It is so far behind its two competitors — W-CDMA and CDMA2000 — in terms of maturity, that it would be difficult for China to push it and have much uptake globally, Natkin noted. The primary reason, say analysts, is that the homegrown 3G technology...
[February 29, 2008, 15:21]
3G Phones 'unfit For Mass Market'
News Among the phones singled out for criticism: the Nokia 6550, which is based on the W-CDMA (Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access) cellular standard. See ZDNet UK's Mobile Technology News Section for the latest news, reviews and price checks on...
[June 16, 2003, 9:01]
