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Australasian Business Intelligence, March, 2002

Mar 27, 2002 (Far Eastern Economic Review

ABIX via COMTEX) -- The market for mobile telephones is fragmented. It is still uncertain what technology will become a standard. The rivalry between NTT DoCoMo and KDDI in Japan is an exemplification of the battle between the two dominating standards. Ted Matsumoto, president of Qualcomm Japan, says that one standard is expensive and revolutionary, and the other is cheap and evolutionary. DoCoMo uses the wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) technology based on Qualcomm patents. KDDI opted for CDMA-2000. Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI, announced in late April 2002 that his company would commit itself to the code-division multiple access (CDMA) standard by phasing out one of its older networks.

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