Mobile vendor strategy N54

Nortel and LG  have worked out the industry's first live test calls using a commercial handset for High Speed Downlink Packet Access.

NEC targets the Russian mobile market.

LG is still the largest US CDMA mobile handset supplier with about 27% market share. With India increasing duties on components (+4%), LG could halt mobile handset manufacturing in the country.

Ericsson and Qualcomm have demonstrated GSM1x in South Africa. GSM1x takes advantage of CDMA-based networks while leveraging the existing GSM networks.

Qualcomm will postpone CDMA 2000 EV-DV technology due to lack of demand.

Tekelec is sued for damages by Bouygues Telecom over the mobile network outage in Nov. 2004.

Motorola invest $5m in two new R&D initiatives in Brazil. It will start offering $40 handset in Russia in 2Q2005.