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Articles tagged with: Lg and CDMA
First Active Handover Between LTE and CDMA Networks Demonstrated
lg and Nortel have demonstrated the world's first 3GPP standards compliant active handover of a data transmission between a LTE network and a CDMA network. Inter-technology handover allowing mobile users the ability to move between LTE and CDMA networks without losing data connectivity means that operators can run these networks concurrently without impacting services. This will help to ensure that users have full network coverage while taking advantage of LTE speeds, wherever initially available. more
Related Tags: nortel, lte, cdma-evolved-high-rate-packet--data, ehrpd, 1xev-do, 700mhz, 4g, handover, Canada
Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
Related Tags: android, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, wimax, motorola, eu, w-cdma, ict, smartphones, tim, hspa, ericsson, infonetics-research, symbian, open-source, wimax,, gsm, operating-system
South Korean W-CDMA base exceeds EV-DO in fourth quarter
All three South Korean operators have now reported their Q4 08 results. The South Korean market is one of the most stable in the world, and it was thus no surprise that market shares remained unchanged both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year, with SK Telecom (SKT) on 50.5%, KT Freetel (KTF) on 31.5% and lg Telecom (lgT) on 18.0%. In fact, barring a minor blip in June, there was no change in market shares on a monthly basis either throughout 2008. more
Related Tags: 3g, arpu, cdma2000-1x, sk-telecom, ktf, cdma2000, kt, kt-freetel, ev-do, Korea South
China's Handset Industry Growth Slowed in Second Half of 2008
According to statistics of the ITIS project - a project initiated by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs and conducted by Taipei-based MIC - China's mobile phone industry reached a shipment volume of 175.2 million units in the third quarter of 2008, representing 6.2% sequential growth and 4.3% year-on-year growth. The industry's growth rate, which peaked in 2006, gradually slowed down to mid-single digits. This indicated that the Chinese mobile phone industry was significantly impacted by a slowdown in global market demand. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, nokia, iphone, motorola, china-unicom, apple, apple, huawei, zte, china-telecom, ericsson, sony, mic, gsm, China
Asia-Pacific Continues to be the Strongest Region for CDMA
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) today announced that the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region once again leads the global CDMA ecosystem in terms of subscribers, revenue and service creation. As APAC operators continue to develop and enhance their core 3G CDMA networks, CDMA2000 subscribership in the region remains the largest in the world and operators in the region are seeing some of the highest wireless data revenues in the industry. more
Related Tags: indosat, arpu, pccw, china-telecom, core-network, reliance-communications, mobile-broadband, reliance, citycell, telkom, cdma-development-group, cdma2000, cdg, 1xev-do, smart-telecom, ev-do
Taiwanese OEMs Switching from Ericsson to Qualcomm for 3G Phones
Taiwan's handset manufacturers are increasingly switching from the Ericsson mobile phone platform to Qualcomm's own handset platform - report local industry sources. Sources told DigiTimes that because HTC has had good success with its Qualcomm-based 3G handsets, other major handset vendors such as Motorola, lg Electronics, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Palm all intend to adopt the Qualcomm platform for their 3G products. more
Related Tags: motorola, qualcomm, ericsson, palm, htc, stmicroelectronics, hewlett-packard, nxp, sharp, asustek, modem, Taiwan
Asia-Pacific CDMA Growth Slows to an All-Time Low
GSM continues to increase its dominance of the Asia Pacific market. Of the 99m new connections made in the quarter, only 13m chose any other standard and of those, 11.3m went for the GSM-enhancement, W-CDMA. Nearly 80% of all customers in the region now use GSM - 1.232bn out of 1.545bn - with CDMA the only other real contender. At the end of June, there were 191.3m customers connected to the various forms of this standard slightly up on the 189.4m at the end of March. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, w-cdma, docomo, softbank, ev-do
Fitch Revises LG Telecom's Outlook to Positive; Affirms 'BB+' Rating
Fitch Ratings has changed South Korea-based lg Telecom's (lgT) Outlook to Positive from Stable. The company's Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default rating (IDR) has been affirmed at 'BB+'. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, fitch-ratings, capex, cdma-evdo, fitch, Korea South
2008 Cellular GPS Market Set to Overshadow PND Shipments
A bumper Christmas market is set to make GPS the hottest new feature in the cellular market. Taking the huge CDMA GPS market aside, GPS-enabled handsets are set to greatly outnumber PND shipments in 2008. more
Related Tags: samsung, motorola, apple, gps, driving, lbs, pnd, ims-research, ims, telmap