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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