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November 13, 2006

Motorola Selects QUALCOMM for UMTS Handset Chips, Lands $1.6 Billion Deal in China

By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Associate Editor

Wireless communications companies Motorola (News - Alert) and QUALCOMM already are good friends, having worked together on CDMA2000-based solutions. Now the two companies are expanding that relationship into the realm of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) technology.



 
In an announcement Monday, Motorola said it will be using Mobile Station Modem chipsets from QUALCOMM in its future, third-generation handsets.
 
Reporting on the development Monday, Reuters described UMTS as “a third-generation mobile-phone technology that enables access to the Internet and television as well as video and music downloading.”
 
“Our success in CDMA2000 markets with QUALCOMM chipsets makes this expansion a logical one for Motorola,” said Ron Garriques, president of Motorola’s Mobile Devices division, said in a statement.
 
Sanjay Jha, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, added: “We are confident that combining the respective strengths of our two companies will result in new opportunities and industry-leading successes over the upcoming years.”
 
No specifics about the deal were given other than the technology in question.
 
In related news, Motorola announced Monday that it landed a $1.6 billion deal to supply mobile phones next year to Shenzhen-based China Telling Communications, Reuters said.

China Telling’s CEO, Yan Siqing, said in a statement that “"Motorola will supply 12 million handsets in 2007 to Telling.”
 
The Reuters report noted that earlier this year Motorola predicted it would claim a quarter of China’s handset market by the end of 2006. By some estimates, that market is growing 25-30 percent each year.
 
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Mae Kowalke previously wrote for Cleveland Magazine in Ohio and The Burlington Free Press in Vermont. To see more of her articles, please visit Mae Kowalke’s columnist page. Also check out her Wireless Mobility blog.


 







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