The company will be a high-margin horn of plenty for at least the next seven years. Qualcomm's technology bestrides the high-speed wireless future like a colossus. Period, end of story. The company will be a high-margin horn of plenty for at least the next seven years. Qualcomm's technology bestrides the high-speed wireless future like a colossus.
First generation is analog for voice only.
If a manufacturer wants to make a 3G handset, it must employ CDMA technology based on Qualcomm patents and pay homage to the Qualcomm licensing god. No brag, just fact. Though we don't know the financial details of the licensing contracts, we can see that they're lucrative. But there's more. Freed of Qualcomm, Spinco will combine CDMA with competing technologies for handsets that can use CDMA, GSM, whatever for multiband roaming.