Overview

Qualcomm developed CDMA technology which changed wireless communication forever. Through continued innovation the Company delivers increasingly advanced technologies for wireless solutions around the world.

QCT's CDMA2000® solutions deliver the advanced wireless capabilities that customers demand today. An innovator in CDMA technology, QCT has propelled mobile connectivity by providing feature-rich, cost effective, mobile connectivity solutions to all market tiers.

QCT offers expertise in cutting edge CDMA technologies. Our engineering team has extensive design and testing experience. Couple that expertise with our integrated-solutions approach, and we enable sleek, feature-rich, power-efficient devices, while reducing development time for new handsets. Wireless operators will benefit from the time-to market advantage of deploying advanced wireless voice and data services without sacrificing performance or network capacity.

Many Qualcomm CDMA chipset solutions support the mobile industry's Open Market Handsets™ (OMH) initiative. Led by the CDMA Development Group, the OMH™ initiative gives consumers more flexibility and variety when choosing handsets and features. Under the requirements of OMH, the network settings are shifted from the OMH handset to the OMH SIM card. Mobile users can purchase a CDMA OMH handset from their retailer of choice and use it with an OMH SIM card from any CDMA OMH operator. The OMH initiative increases device variety, improves time-to-market, expands distribution channels, and lowers handset inventory costs for operators.

To tap into the growing demand for data-intense services, QCT offers cost-effective solutions for wide area wireless broadband with high data speeds. The higher spectral efficiency of EV-DO networks offer high data rates and increased capacity. As a result, wireless operators can deliver cost-effective advanced data services.

EV-DO networks support high-quality streaming video and audio, global positioning services, and rich multimedia applications. Enhancements in EV-DO Revision A support symmetric applications with lower latencies. This enables a new breed of applications from instant messaging with multimedia content to VoIP and video broadcasts. By leveraging these differentiating services, network operators can offer new services to build revenue; backward compatibility ensures they can protect their existing network investments.

Benefits

• High-speed data services. Qualcomm CDMA Technology (QCT) solutions provide high data rates to enable feature-rich applications, such as multimedia streaming, video recording and playback, integrated cameras with photo sharing, global positioning, customizable interfaces, and mobile online games. Such production differentiation provides the opportunity for additional revenue streams and the ability to tap into new markets.
• Cost-effective solutions. CDMA2000 enables cost-sensitive, developing markets to join the global community, while providing an easy path to upgraded capabilities and inherent data support for in-demand services beyond voice and SMS.
• Improved performance. With greater spectral efficiency, CDMA2000 technology provides clear voice quality and excellent reception with less background noise and better connectivity. Customers enjoy greater reliability and an enhanced experience overall.
• Powerful, integrated functionality. QCT offers a suite of integrated multimedia technologies in each of its chipsets, effectively eliminating the need for separate multimedia companion processors and memory subsystems. Manufacturers can offer smaller, power-efficient wireless devices with advanced functionality. The single-chip solution decreases development time, lowers system costs, and decreases time to market.