2002 is Promising Year for CDMA; 2001 Advancements Reviewed During Interactive Webcast; Webcast Archived at www.cdg.org.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002 During a live, interactive webcast held last week, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. Development Group (CDG (CDMA Development Group, Costa Mesa, CA, www.cdg.org) A membership organization founded in 1995 that promotes CDMA wireless systems worldwide. It is involved with developing new features and services and promoting standards that provide global compatibility and interoperability. ) (www.cdg.org) executive officers Brian O'Shaughnessy, president of the CDG and vice president of wireless technology for Bell Mobility; Greg Young, vice president of planning for the CDG and group manager, core products and platforms for Telstra; Oliver Valente, treasurer of the CDG and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. for Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ; and Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG, examined CDMA's achievements in 2001 and what's ahead for the technology in 2002. "CDMA operators and manufacturers around the world further advanced the technology and continued to deliver on the promise of 3G during 2001," said LaForge. "In the year ahead, the industry will see additional deployments of 3G services with CDMA2000, ongoing technology evolution, the introduction of more innovative devices, as well as the development of cutting-edge applications." 2001 offered achievements in areas such as technology innovation, roaming, and applications. CDMA technology reached more than 117 million subscribers, including 3.5 CDMA2000 users on eight commercial networks at year's end. Other milestones from 2001 include the recognition of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO (Evolution Data-Only) as part of the IMT-2000 standard by the International Telecommunications Union See ITU. (body, standard) International Telecommunications Union - (ITU) ITU-T, the telecommunication standardisation sector of ITU, is responsible for making technical recommendations about telephone and data (including fax) communications systems for PTTs and suppliers. (ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. ); advancement of 1xEV-DV (Evolution Data-Voice) by 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol 2; development of standards for all-IP core networks; launch of new 3G applications; and completion of the CDMA user identity module (UIM UIM User Identity Module UIM User Interface Manager (IBM OS390) UIM Union Internationale Motonautique UIM Underground Infrastructure Management (magazine) ) standard. Regional developments in 2001 included: -- Asia Pacific: The Asia-Pacific CDMA community celebrated the first-year anniversary of the commercial availability of 3G CDMA2000. Korean CDMA2000 operators are experiencing phenomenal uptake of advanced services, such as SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. with picture attachments, karaoke and games, which generate more usage and higher revenue than 2G technologies. The birthplace of 3G offers further promise for the technology with the launch of China Unicom's CDMA network, the approval of limited mobility in India, the introduction of inter-standard GSM-CDMA messaging in Australia, and the conversion of a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) A satellite and cellular phone technology that interleaves multiple digital signals onto a single high-speed channel. For cellular, TDMA triples the capacity of the original analog method (FDMA). network to CDMA in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . -- Americas: CDMA is the dominant technology in North America, currently representing a larger subscriber base than any other digital wireless standard. cdmaOne(TM) operators successfully completed 3G trials and will be first to launch 3G in the region. And new operators are joining the CDMA family; US Cellular announced plans to migrate its TDMA network to CDMA2000. Latin America continues to be the fastest growing region for CDMA. Operators in Jamaica and Puerto Rico offered new CDMA services, Peru launched the region's first IS-95B system, Brazil's Telesp commercially deployed 3G CDMA2000, and Venezuela's Movilnet announced plans to overlay its TDMA network with CDMA2000. -- Europe: CDMA also made headway in Europe and Russia with the announcements of CDMA450 trials and deployments. Looking ahead, 2002 promises to build on the successes of 2001 and offer additional new accomplishments. cdmaOne will continue to expand across all regions, and 16 operators have announced they will launch CDMA2000 networks this year. CDMA2000 1xEV-DO will be commercially deployed this year, offering data speeds at up to 2.4 Mbps. An archive of the webcast, which was hosted by the CDG and produced by Digevent (www.digevent.com), a company that produces live and on-demand interactive online events, can be viewed on the CDG's Web site located at www.cdg.org. The CDMA Development Group is a nonprofit trade association formed to foster the worldwide development, implementation and use of CDMA technologies. The 110 member companies of the CDG include many of the world's largest wireless operators and equipment manufacturers. The primary activities of the CDG include development of cdmaOne and CDMA2000 features and services, public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , education and seminars, regulatory affairs and international support. Currently, there are more than 500 individuals working within various CDG subcommittees on cdmaOne- and CDMA2000-related matters. For more information about the CDG, contact Valerie Christopherson of the CDG News Bureau at 714/540-1030, ext. 17, e-mail vchristopherson@bockpr.com, or visit the CDG Web site at http://www.cdg.org. Note to Editors: cdmaOne is a trademark of the CDG. |
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