Collaborating with small start-ups and virtually every major brand name in today’s global wireless marketplace, Qualcomm provides comprehensive, end-to-end solutions that are made even more valuable by an unmatched suite of expert support services for deploying, testing and optimizing 3G networks.
To enable long-term return on investment for wireless service operators, Qualcomm’s global R&D teams are working to provide our operator partners with a reliable roadmap for the future, regardless of which technology they choose.
For example, over the next two years, it is anticipated that our next-generation EV-DO Rev. B solution will take advantage of interference cancellation, enhanced codecs and other technology enhancements to more than double network capacity, supporting current and future voice needs with half the amount of spectrum. This increased capacity not only enables operators to meet the growing demand for voice services, but also frees up spectrum that can be used to expand their advanced broadband data services.
Similarly, for operators in the WCDMA /HSPA sector, Qualcomm continues to offer faster and more efficient solutions. HSPA+, also known as Enhanced HSPA or eHSPA, represents the next evolution of this platform. It offers twice the data and triple the voice capacity, is backward-compatible with prior generations of WCDMA and does not require new spectrum for deployment. Qualcomm strives to be first to market with an HSPA+ chipset scheduled for commercialization in 2009.
Qualcomm demonstrated its HSPA leadership this year with the world’s first HSPA+ data call, which achieved a data transfer rate of 20 Mbps.
In another milestone this year, Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, announced that its planned deployment of Enhanced HSPA via its Next G™ wireless network is progressing on schedule. Telstra announced that Australians using its network will be the first in the world to experience peak downlink speeds of 21 Mbps.
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