jdaasoc, <<article seems to think cdma will always behind the eight ball relative to grps and WCDMA>>
WCDMA is CDMA. And all WCDMA device manufacturers (nok, ericd,ntt,siemens,samsung,mot etc..) have signed royalty contracts with qcom to be able to use qcom's patents in their device designs. The royalty costs are not huge; 5% of the wholesale price of the device. It becames payable at the time of shipment from a factory to theh retailer. Any device maker can also use a qcom manufacturer chipset (referred to as ASIC) in their devices, in which case qualcomm also makes the revenue from the chipset. At the moment there are no real competitors to qcom on cdma2000 chipsets (mot gave up and became a qcom customer 3 months ago. The jump in qcom's revcenue this quarter is mostly attributable to this). And nowhere in the world is there a successful WCDMA network. In Japan, docomo has a failing wcdma network, and it uses the Global Positioning System to synchronize the handset and the towers. Synchronizatin is essential for handoffs. WCDMA is referred to as the 'asynchronous mode' of CDMA by design. That's how the Europeans want to make it. But it does not work.. You cannot do a handoff. then it's not a mobile network you see. They don't want to use GPS, and they can't make their network work. So, a window of opportunity opens up for qcom to fill in with their own cdma2000 which works. That's the lay of the land in a nutshell. An important news in their cc last night was they signed a MOU with one of the 'top five' operators in the world to sue phones made with qcom's GSM/CDMA2000 dual mode chips.
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