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| CDMA History |
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November 1988
November 1989
- CDMA open demonstration conducted in San Diego
February 1990
- NYNEX and Qualcomm successfully demonstrate CDMA in New York City
1991
- Qualcomm successfully performs large-scale capacity tests in San Diego
1992
- US West orders the first CDMA network equipment
- CDMA soft handoff patent granted
1993
- IS-95A standard complete
- U.S. Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) adopts CDMA as North American digital standard
- First commercial CDMA market trial
- South Korea adopts CDMA
1994
- Sprint PCS adopts CDMA
- Qualcomm forms Qualcomm Personal Electronics (QPE), a joint venture with Sony Electronics to develop and manufacture CDMA phones
1995
- CDMA standardized for U.S. PCS
- First commercial launch of cdmaOne (Hutchison Telecom, Hong Kong)
- Qualcomm launches first commercial cdmaOne handset
1996
- cdmaOne is commercially launched in South Korea
- PrimeCo launches cdmaOne in 14 U.S. cities (now Verizon Wireless)
- CDMA Development Group (CDG) announces more than one million cdmaOne subscribers
1997
- IS-95B standard completed (including 64 kbps data transmission capability)
- Commercial service available in 100 U.S. cities
- CDMA chosen in Japan
- Qualcomm unveils the Q Phone
- QPE ships one million CDMA phones
1998
- TIA endorses CDMA2000 to be 3G solution for International Telecommunication Union
- LG Telecom launches first CDMA data services
- CDMA2000 submitted to ITU as part of the IMT-2000 process for global 3G standards
- More than 12.5 million cdmaOne subscribers in 30 countries
- First 1xEV-DO demonstration
1999
- Qualcomm and Ericsson reach agreement to support single 3G CDMA standard; Qualcomm sells wireless infrastructure division to Ericsson
- China Unicom joins CDG and announces plans for commercial services
- 83 CDMA operators in 35 countries
- CDG announces CDMA is fastest growing mobile technology with nearly 42 million subscribers
- Qualcomm introduces the Thin Phone and the pdQ phone
- Qualcomm exceeds 14 million CDMA phones shipped since production began
2000
- Japan's IDO and DDI start nationwide 64 kbps CDMA packet data service
- DDI announces they will use CDMA2000 for 3G wireless service
- IUSACELL becomes first Latin American operator to offer wireless Internet services
- Qualcomm, Samsung and Sprint PCS make first 3G CDMA2000 voice call
- Lucent and Qualcomm complete the first 153 kbps 3G CDMA2000 data call
- Qualcomm and Sprint commence U.S. trials for 3G CDMA2000 solution
- SK Telecom launches world's first 3G CDMA2000 commercial service
- Qualcomm sells CDMA handset business to Kyocera Wireless Corp.
2001
- More than 100 million CDMA subscribers globally
- More than 22 million cdmaOne Internet and data users
- CDMA2000 surpasses three million subscribers
- Qualcomm ships cumulative total of more than 500 million chips
- QCT and Nortel Networks conduct industry's first mobile IP call
- QCT, SchlumbergerSema and Samsung demonstrate CDMA/GSM roaming using R-UIM-enabled CDMA handsets
- Qualcomm introduces BREW system
- KDDI announces successful completion of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO trial with Qualcomm, Hitachi, Sony and Kyocera
- Telesp Cellular in Brazil is first Latin American operator to deploy 3G CDMA2000
- Romania launches commercial CDMA2000 services
- First commercial gpsOne deployment by SECOM in Japan
2002
- 3G CDMA subscribers surpass 27 million
- Qualcomm's CMX multimedia software debuts in U.S. as Sprint launches CMX with 'Sprint PCS Ringers & More' service
- China Unicom launches nationwide cdmaOne network in China
- SK Telecom launches CDMA2000 1xEV-DO in South Korea
- Qualcomm ships cumulative total of more than 725 million chips
- More than five million gpsOne subscribers
- 14 countries launch commercial CDMA2000 services (Australia, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, India, Israel, Japan, Moldova, New Zealand, Panama, Russia, United States and Venezuela)
- Monet Mobile launches first CDMA2000 1xEV-DO commercial network in the United States
- BREW subscribers top 2.5 million
2003
- 3G CDMA subscribers surpass 73 million
- 18 countries launch commercial CDMA2000 services (Argentina, Belarus, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, China, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam)
- BREW subscribers top 16 million
- 19 more operators deploy commercial BREW services worldwide
- MSM7xxx chipset solution series for high-performance multimedia wireless devices is released
- MSM6250 chipset solution for WCDMA (UMTS), GSM and GPRS is released
- Qualcomm's WCDMA solutions selected by 13 infrastructure vendors and 13 leading device manufacturers
- More than 25 million gpsOne subscribers
- Verizon Wireless launches CDMA2000 1xEV-DO in the United States
- KDDI launches CDMA2000 1xEV-DO in Japan
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