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Qualcomm to provide LG with EV-DV Chipsets at the end of this year
June 14, 2004 - source: Telecoms Korea

Qualcomm provides LG Electronics with its chipsets for CDMA2000 1x EV-DV, a 3G CDMA standard starting from the end of this year. Accordingly, LG Telecom, the third largest mobile operator in Korea, is likely to offer EV-DV service as early as next year.

SK Telecom and KTF, nations' first and second largest mobile operators, started EV-DO commercial service in 2002 and W-CDMA service, an EV-DV equivalent 3G standard in rivalry with CDMA -2000 late last year.

EV-DV is the latest version of CDMA 2000 1x family which is dominated by Qualcomm. Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics already introduced compatible handsets and systems in major world electronics shows.

LG Telecom is currently providing only CDMA 2000 1 x RTT service and is preparing EV-DV commercial service for 2006, skipping EV-DO.

EV-DV supports 3.1Mbps on the forward link while EV-DO supports only 2.4 Mbps. On the reverse link EV-DV supports 1.8Mbps, 12 times faster than 153.6 Kbps of EV-DO.

http://www.3gnewsroom.com/3g_news/jun_04/news_4590.shtml