Articles tagged with: W CDMA and Motorola

Motorola Wins Chinese 3G Contract

Motorola says that it has won a w-cdma contract with China Unicom for an undisclosed amount. Under the contract, Motorola will provide China Unicom with w-cdma radio access network equipment, packet switched core network (PS core), and 2G/3G interoperability functions that will enable the integration of China Unicom's GSM and w-cdma networks.  more

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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

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Mobile Capex Finally Shifts to 3G Technologies

Mobile network operators are finally shifting their infrastructure capital spending away from GSM/EDGE technologies and toward w-cdma and HSPA, with carriers in Western Europe leading the 3G charge, according to a new report from Heavy Reading.  more

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