“Qualcomm seeks to join suppliers including Toshiba Corp. and Infineon Technologies AG to win chip orders for the iPhone,” Lo and Lee report.
“Qualcomm will next year start selling chips for mobile phones that support China’s domestically developed TD-SCDMA, or time division synchronous code-division multiple access, technology, according to Adrian Fu, a Hong Kong-based public relations manager at the chip company, who attributed the information to Jacobs,” Lo and Lee report. “China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest phone company by users, had 1.66 million users for TD-SCDMA service on Sept. 30, according to its Web site.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
Now we’ll learn what Verizon has known for months; Apple has big plans for not only iPhone, but other devices as well.
Blood Flood!
Ship already sailed for Verison…
this is the day for non news. no one is shocked that qualcomm wants to supply chips for one of the biggest phones out there or that Apple has already started 10.7
now Carrie Prejean’s sex tapes to be released on itunes. that would be news. for a number of reasons
Yap, yap, yap.
Qualcomm is old, dying technology. Verizon is saddled with it … what a dumb decision it made on CDMA long ago.
The entire world is on GSM or GSM derived standards while Verizon and Qualcomm live in the past.
Apple may do a deal for some radio interfaces for the single Verizon network, but its meaningless in the whole scheme of things. Apple’s gold is in them thar hills, abroad.
I really hope Verizon get the iPhone. That way it can swamp there network and they can say. Upgrades coming, but our systems is tapped the hell out and quit using the iPhone so the crashes will be less.
Oh, we are rising the monthly fee on data access so we can build out the GSM system in the coming years. Speak or talk; but can not do both.
Oh it will be funny. Have a chart for that!
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Qualcomm owns patents on both CDMA and WCDMA/UMTS. They are both the same, using code division technolgy. Except CDMA is spectrally efficient (only uses 1.25 MHz compared to WCDMA which uses 5 MHz). That’s why t-mobile had to get AWS frequencies for 3G (they only had 10 MHz of spectrum using PCS frequencies).
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You said; “Yap, yap, yap.
Qualcomm is old, dying technology. Verizon is saddled with it … what a dumb decision it made on CDMA long ago.
The entire world is on GSM or GSM derived standards while Verizon and Qualcomm live in the past.
Apple may do a deal for some radio interfaces for the single Verizon network, but its meaningless in the whole scheme of things. Apple’s gold is in them thar hills, abroad.”
Er, Qualcomm is the largest 3G chip supplier for ALL 3G standards, including AT&T;’s! DUH!
The GSM version of 3G, UMTS Rel 99 didn’t work properly & only provided s-l-o-w data speeds… HSDPA was introduced, which was Qualcomm ‘helping’ the Europeans get their 3G standard competitive. It’s actually very similar to overlaying the 5 MHz UMTS carrier w/ an EV/DO carrier.
GSM is 30 YEAR OLD OUT-OF-DATE TECHNOLOGY!!!!! IS-95 CDMA only went commercial in 1994. ALL 3G standards, as well as the 4G LTE standard is based on CDMA, not TDMA (GSM is TDMA based) DUH!
If you read the article, the world’s largest GSM carrier, China Mobile, is NOT using UMTS for 3G. They are using a homegrown, TD-SCDMA standard that Qualcomm has committed to build chips for….
KDDI, the second largest carrier in Japan (historically Apple’s second largest market after the US) is on 3G CDMA (EV/DO), as is China Telecom – so ALL of the world’s carriers are NOT on GSM – DUH!
I love it when people open their mouths who don’t know what they’re talking about…
Er, why exactly would Verizon build out a network w/ GSM?
Verizon is focused on the future & is going to be the first carrier in the world (or close to it) w/ 4G LTE technology.
LTE is a CDMA-based standard (as are all the 3G-based standards including UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA or whatever they’re calling it these days)