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Qualcomm Confident in China
Reuters
7:00 a.m. Jun. 12, 2000 PDT
HONG KONG -- Qualcomm CEO Irwin Jacobs acknowledged Monday that he
was disappointed by setbacks for his firm's CDMA wireless technology in
China, but said he expects No. 2 carrier China Unicom will ultimately adopt
Qualcomm's third-generation CDMA standard.
But timing for a code division multiple access (CDMA) rollout by China's No.
2 telecoms carrier is uncertain, Jacobs told Reuters in an interview in Hong
Kong, where he was attending a CDMA mobile phone conference.
"I think the economic advantages of building CDMA
sooner rather than later are very, very great.
Otherwise, they're buying technology that's becoming
old -- GSM technology."
Worldwide there are about 57 million CDMA
subscribers, compared with more than 300 million
using GSM.
Qualcomm is focusing on CDMA standards it calls
CDMA2000. Competitors are developing a separate
standard known as WCDMA. While Qualcomm
maintains it will earn the same royalties no matter
which standard is used, it is pushing its home-grown
version as a more efficient and readily available
platform.
Qualcomm's royalties from WCDMA, which has been
touted as the more natural upgrade from GSM, could
be watered-down by competing patent claims,
analysts have said. But Jacobs maintained that
Qualcomm's patent position is "very strong."
Jacobs said 3G CDMA technology will be deployed in
South Korea later this year, followed by Japan and the
United States.
He declined to speculate on when China Unicom might
deploy Qualcomm's CDMA, but added, "hopefully a
year from now in China we won't talk about 'when' but
'how much.'"
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