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Nokia Confirms Its Commitment to CDMA
March 03, 1997
-- Nokia to use own CDMA chip design for future products --
Nokia today announced that is has designed its own CDMA chip set for use in Nokia products scheduled for commercial delivery beginning in the summer of 1997. Nokia will base its first CDMA dual-mode 800 MHz phone on the design of the award winning and internationally popular Nokia 2100 series.
In addition to being the first company to offer a competitive and alternative CDMA design, Nokia’s initial CDMA products will support an 8 kbps and 13 kbps vocoder for excellent voice quality. The phones also will fully support IS-95A features such as short messaging and caller line identification.
“This announcement further validates the acceptance of CDMA technology,” said Larry Paulson, Vice President, Business Development at Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. “From our perspective, CDMA, TDMA and GSM compliment each other. Nokia’s CDMA program is an extension of our leadership in digital technology development.”
Globally, Nokia’s design teams share in much of the development of technology and products. Economies of scale stemming from Nokia leadership in GSM and TDMA engineering, production and sourcing provide benefits for operators and end customers. Operators will gain fast and innovative network solutions from Nokia’s experience gained in CDMA technology development. Additionally, Nokia’s award-winning user interface and large display make the phone and digital services easy to use. Nokia’s common digital accessory platform will mean a full range of car, power and desktop accessories available for the product when it is brought to market.
Nokia’s commitment to CDMA began in 1991 with the establishment of a dedicated CDMA research center in San Diego. Since then, Nokia has been an active member of the CDMA Development Group (CDG) and has played a key role in standards development by solving industry problems and providing essential algorithms for CDMA’s enhanced variable rate codec (EVRC). Additionally, Nokia participates in many of the CDG development and standardization groups for data and future CDMA standards such as wideband digital systems (FPLMTS).
Additional information
CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
FPLMTS -- Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System
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