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Nokia to stop making CDMA phones |
batesie
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said it would stop making phones using the CDMA standard and had scrapped plans to produce them with Japan's Sanyo Electric Co.
The Finnish company said on Thursday it would pull out of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone manufacturing, which it sees as a shrinking market in the longer term. It will continue to offer Nokia-branded CDMA handsets, made by contract manufacturers, in North America where the standard is popular.
CDMA is the less popular wireless telephony technology, used by 25 to 30 percent of mobile subscribers, and competes with the GSM standard used by about 70 percent of the world's 2 billion mobile phone users.
Though Nokia holds the number one spot in global handset sales, built on its strength in GSM which it helped to invent, the Finnish company has trailed in CDMA. It has tried to avoid using chips by Qualcomm Inc., but could not avoid paying significant technology licensing fees to the U.S.-based firm which holds most patents to the CDMA technology.
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xan K
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CDMA is the main service used here in the Dominican Republic and it was the only for many years until Orange came. Orange has taken the market like a storm and there are over a million users so far. Besides being the most used standard worldwide GSM rocks! I think this desicion by Nokia will hit the CDMA market in a bad way. |
mario2002
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It was never a contender to gsm. Is a dying tech. Even north america is adopting more and more 3g. Wise move. Nokia should have stopped supporting it last year and in so doing force the us market to adopt the standard which dominates the world.
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shaliron
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I think that Nokia was one of the last big manufacturers to keep making phones for CDMA anyway. Bye bye CDMA.
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Residentevil
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The largest carrier Verizon and the third largest Sprint use CDMA. It would be good if if would go away so there would be more competition in the GSM arena. There is only tmob and Cingular covering the entire nation with GSM.
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xan K
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what? Orange does not work in USA?
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Posted: 2006-06-23 16:29
