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Friday, 10/08/2004 1:38:56 PM

Friday, October 08, 2004 1:38:56 PM

NTT DoCoMo To Use Qualcomm Chips
News by Michael Oryl (editor) on Friday October 08, 2004.
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=898&source=ARCHIVE

It appears that Japanese giant NTT DoCoMo is going to give up on their own proprietary flavor of WCDMA that they call JWCDMA. The company and US CDMA inventor Qualcomm announced that they have been doing interoperability tests since June of this year, and that in the future, manufacturers will be able to develop handsets for DoCoMo's FOMA network using Qualcomm chipsets.

Working with Qualcomm in this way should also mean that future phones designed for other networks that are based on Qualcomm's WCDMA chips will be able to roam into NTT DoCoMo's WCDMA network without problem. NTT DoCoMo also said that they expect the cooperation with Qualcomm and their less expensive, single chip designs will allow them to offer lower cost 3G handsets than they can currently.