Qualcomm Supports Verizon's LTE Decision Plans to work with LTE while still benefitting from CDMA When Verizon Wireless recently announced that its move in the 4G race would be to select LTE, many analysts said that the decision could have a severely negative impact on companies like Qualcomm which have a strong foothold in CDMA-based technology. However Qualcomm says that it isn’t worried about the decision and may even benefit from Verizon’s move. The company says that they’re a major supporter of LTE technology and that they’ll work to help Verizon Wireless in the deployment of that technology. At the same time, they note that it will be a long time before CDMA technology is completely eliminated and that they’ll be able to benefit from that business for years to come.
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That vision was backed by Verizon Wireless CTO Dick Lynch, who told RCR Wireless News that the carrier’s LTE plans would be based on a new network and that its CDMA-based network would continue operating into the foreseeable future. Even Verizon agrees that CDMA will be around for quite awhile, which an analyst sees as at least 5 years. And if Qualcomm will be selling LTE equipment and chips, then their existing Verizon contacts should result in them still getting a lot of Verizon business.
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|  | | | Re: Qualcomm will still be a big Verizon vendor Exactly they will just end up in the LTE market. | |
| | | | | Re: Qualcomm will still be a big Verizon vendor They will gobble up qualcomm soon u will see. | |
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Daleville, AL | Voice Network Going to GSM? So do we think Verizon's voice network will be switching to GSM as well? That's a pretty large expense to convert as their switches and cellsites.
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| | | | Re: Voice Network Going to GSM? Of course not!
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Valencia, CA | Re: Voice Network Going to GSM? The whole LTE thing is a ways out. This is just for the phase beyond CDMA 1x/EVDO.
Voice will be VoIP, most likely.
LTE is just the end of a 'beta' vs. 'vhs' saga right now.. There will be more in the future.
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1 edit | LTE is an OFDMA-based technology that is different from both GSM and CDMA. VZW has expressed the intent to migrate to LTE, and numerous GSM providers have likewise expressed that intent. But as a technology, LTE has nothing in particular to do with GSM. Presumably, both kinds of providers will use VoIP over the LTE network for their voice service. | |
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| said by evoxfan:So do we think Verizon's voice network will be switching to GSM as well? That's a pretty large expense to convert as their switches and cellsites. How so ? The antenna's are what has to change on the cell site. The switches for data are there and they will just drop your voice on a data channel instead. No big changes needed. Teh gear would actually be less then the labor.
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Daleville, AL | Re: Voice Network Going to GSM? said by BosstonesOwn:said by evoxfan:So do we think Verizon's voice network will be switching to GSM as well? That's a pretty large expense to convert as their switches and cellsites. How so ? The antenna's are what has to change on the cell site. The switches for data are there and they will just drop your voice on a data channel instead. No big changes needed. Teh gear would actually be less then the labor. Verizon uses two vendors mainly: Lucent and Nortel. Both are CDMA based systems and are not compatible with LTE. This includes the equipment at the switches AND cell sites. As far as antennas go, yes they probably will have to change. Antennas are far cheaper than the other equipment though.
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| | CDMA is dead: Reliance to offer GSM services in India & the Reliance Telecom the world's third largest CDMA operator announced and started building GSM network in India to offshoot the slump in CDMA subscriptions.
They are not adding or investing in CDMA anymore.
Huge setback for CDMA. | |
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