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Wall Street Journal: Nokia, Qualcomm battle over 3G market share



Feb 20, 2003, (Wall Street Journal /FT Information via COMTEX) -- Nokia Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. are battling for dominance in the emerging third-generation (3G) mobile phone market. Aside from being a handset maker, Nokia also manufactures chips for the WCDMA and CDMA 2000 3G standards. This operation makes the Finnish company a head-to-head competitor with Qualcomm. While Nokia commands just 5% of the CDMA 2000 chip market, it controls the WCDMA market. For its part, Qualcomm is the leading CDMA 2000 chip producer, but is aiming for 50% of the WCDMA market.

Abstracted from: The Wall St Journal (US Edition)Copyright 2003: Financial Times Information. All rights reserved

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