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Brazil: CDMA reaches 20.5mil users, foresees Qualcomm

MONDAY , OCTOBER 11, 2004 10:05 AM

Brazil, Oct 8, 2004 (Jornal do Commercio/SABI via COMTEX) -- Qualcomm,
developer of the CDMA standard, forecasts an increase from 14.4mil to 20.5mil
users in Brazil, even with the expansion of GSM technology. In order to
conciliate the use of both technologies and avoid losses, the company has
developed multimode chipset mobile phones, which also allow international
roaming. Qualcomm does not intend to manufacture those products in domestic
market, although the government of Brazil has been stimulating the local
production of chipsets. Qualcomm has been operating in the country since 1995,
supplying mobile phones and developing the CDMA network of Vesper. Meanwhile the
fixed phone operator Telemar is planning to launch phones that can operate as
fixed and mobile phone modes. The company is betting on convergent services
along with its division, the mobile phone operator Oi.

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