Qualcomm and NEC Corporation Sign CDMA Infrastructure License Agreement

Business Wire, June 5, 1995

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 1995--QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM) and NEC Corporation of Japan today announced that they have signed a multi-million dollar, worldwide infrastructure license agreement to use QUALCOMM's Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology. Last year, NEC entered into a subscriber equipment license agreement with QUALCOMM. NEC is the first Japan-based company to be licensed to manufacture and sell both CDMA subscriber and infrastructure equipment.

"We believe that the addition of NEC, the largest telecommunications supplier to the Japanese market and one of the largest telecommunications suppliers worldwide, as a CDMA infrastructure provider will allow the technology to move more rapidly in CDMA deployment areas where NEC has a significant presence," said Harvey White, president and chief operating officer of QUALCOMM Incorporated. "This expansion of the NEC product family signals a strong commitment to fully support the successful introduction of CDMA."

"Based on this agreement, we will develop mobile communications systems to enter the CDMA digital cellular phone and PCS infrastructure markets in the North, Central and South Americas," said Yoshitake Matsuo, assistant general manager, Mobile Communications Systems Division of NEC Corporation. "NEC's CDMA products are expected to be commercialized in the latter half of 1996. NEC has been supplying various mobile communications systems such as analog and digital portable phone systems and Personal Handyphone System (PHS) in Japan, as well as Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) and Total Access Communications System (TACS) for overseas." NEC has supplied its mobile communications infrastructure equipment in 18 countries.

NEC Corporation, founded in 1899, is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has net sales of US $43 billion for the 1994-95 fiscal year. NEC manufactures and markets a broad range of products including computer systems, which extend from supercomputers to personal computers; communications systems, which extend from switching systems to cellular phones, and electronic devices, which extend from microprocessors to memory chips.

Headquartered in San Diego, QUALCOMM develops, manufactures, markets, licenses and operates advanced communications systems and products based on its proprietary digital wireless technologies. The company's primary product areas are the OmniTRACS system (a geostationary satellite-based, mobile communications system providing two-way data and position reporting services), CDMA wireless communications systems and products and, in conjunction with others, the development of the GLOBALSTAR low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite communications system. Other company products include the Eudora Pro and Eudora Light electronic mail software, VLSI components and communications equipment and systems for government and commercial customers worldwide. -0-

Note to Editors: OmniTRACS is a registered trademark of QUALCOMM Incorporated. GLOBALSTAR is a trademark of Globalstar, L.P. Eudora is a registered trademark of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees licensed to QUALCOMM Incorporated. Eudora Light and Eudora Pro are trademarks of QUALCOMM Incorporated.

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