China approved the use of CDMA 2000 and UMTS (W-CDMA) data transfer technologies.

The markets in the Midwest and the East and West Coasts have been affected by a band swap operated by AT&T. The company has been moving W-CDMA 3G access to the 850Mhz band, which was previously used by its well-known GSM/EDGE service. The transition of the W-CDMA 3G started at the beginning of last year, and the company is also moving the GSM/EDGE servic...

China's Cabinet said it has approved 3G licenses for three mobile operators, a move expected to result in China's operators spending some $41 billion on infrastructure. It's expected market leader China Mobile will be granted a licenses for China's homegrown standard, TD-SCDMA, while China Unicom will receive a license for W-CDMA technology. China Telecom, which doesn't op...

The Chinese government just approved the implementation of next-generation 3G wireless services. The country’s regulation body would issue license for each of the three major standards: the homegrown TD-SCDMA standard as well as the global standards the CDMA 2000 and W-CDMA. The two international 3G standards had implemented in the United States, Europe and Asia. The world’s

The Chinese government has approved plans to issue licenses for 3G-based wireless services, a decision that will result in billions of dollars spent there on infrastructure during the next two years.

Growth in the W-CDMA segment is due to sustained deployments in various regions.

The worldwide radio access network market dipped 6% to $9.6 billion in the third quarter of 2008, after a second-quarter peak because of the Beijing Olympics.

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Just days before the International Trade Commission was scheduled to decide whether or not to ban 3G Samsung phones from being imported into the U.S., the handset maker resolved its patent dispute with InterDigital and signed a deal to license InterDigital patents covering all of Samsung 3G products (including those with both W-CDMA and CDMA2000 standards) though 2012. The...

DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards. DoCoMo and Renesas began joint development work in 2004 on the SH-Mobile G series of single-chip LSI devices, which integrate a baseband processor that supports...