Mobile vendor strategies - 13/10/05

Ericsson and Nokia will introduce their respective GSM 45O portfolio. The target is to access new markets and operators, and to compete with CDMA 450 that recently made some inroads in Central Europe and Scandinavia.

China has developed the global first 0.13-micron baseband chip with independent intellectual property right for the TD-SCDMA handset.

Samsung will establish a mobile handset production unit in India.

Texas Instruments has unveiled a pico base station solution.

Nokia launches three new handsets in the E series targeting business users.