Mucho, it seems that the news report you quoted was incorrect. Kyocera is NOT cutting CDMA production jobs. They are in fact hiring, not firing.
<San Diego, Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Kyocera Corp., a Japanese electronics maker, said it doesn't plan additional job cuts this year after firing 190 people in June at the San Diego-based mobile- phone business that it acquired from Qualcomm Inc.
Reports that Kyocera planned 10,000 job cuts in its fiscal year, mainly at the phone business and a larger unit, were misleading since the phone division had completed its firings and didn't expect more, Kyocera spokesman Jay Scovie said.
The unit, which makes cellular phones based on the Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA, standard developed by Qualcomm, employs 2,400 people, Kyocera Wireless Corp. spokeswoman Dana Knight said. It fired the workers because of slowing demand for phones and a traditional weakening of sales in the summer, she said. Now the division is hiring, Scovie said.
Most of the rest of the 10,000 job cuts came at Kyocera's 70 percent-owned AVX Corp. unit, Scovie said. AVX is the largest maker of ceramic casings that protect semiconductors and is based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The previously announced cuts at Kyocera Wireless included 70 full-time employees and 120 seasonal contract workers, representing about 8 percent of the unit's staff, Knight said. Kyoto, Japan-based Kyocera bought the business from San Diego- based Qualcomm in February 2000 for $242 million... >
I guess you'll be disappointed. But keep looking, I'm sure there is some law of physics or something which says that CDMA and Mighty Q! are not long for this world and you'll find it.
There is a fanatical, bordering on desperate, attitude among the GSM Guild fan club members to find something, anything, to hold the line against CDMA. Sorry Mucho, but humanity wants the lifestyle benefits of CDMA.
Meanwhile, CDMA continues apace.
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