re: cdma2000 for 2.1 GHz IMT-2000 Core Spectrum
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Unquestionably an important development for cdma2000
>> CDMA2000 Vendors Go After 2.1 GHz Market
Peggy Albright
August 26, 2002
Wireless Week
A group of eight CDMA2000 infrastructure and handset vendors are working to make CDMA2000 work in additional spectrum bands. To date, the CDMA2000 equipment developed and deployed runs on either 800 or 1900 MHz frequencies. However, many of the 3G services planned around the world will run on 2.1 GHz spectrum.
The CDMA Development Group said last week that the vendors, which include Ericsson, LG Electronics, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel Networks, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and ZTE, will provide CDMA2000 equipment operators can deploy in the 2.1 GHz spectrum band.
"This means that carriers who in the past only had one choice, which was to deploy UMTS, now have a second option, which is to look at CDMA2000," says Terry Yen, director of Asia-Pacific projects for the CDMA Development Group.
He says the CDMA industry is targeting opportunities to sell 2.1 GHz CDMA2000 equipment in Asian countries where 3G spectrum is not tied to any specific technology. The 2.1 GHz spectrum licensed in European 3G auctions is specified for UMTS and is not considered a target market considering the regulatory constraints.
Yen says China offers a potential market for the new equipment, as do Japan and other East Asian countries. KDDI in Japan will use the technology to complement the CDMA2000 service it now has in the 800 MHz band.
Yen says some vendors will have equipment ready for trial next month and some will have commercial equipment in February. <<
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