Mobile vendor strategies - 25/03/06

Qualcomm is joining forces with China TechFaith Wireless to fund a new mobile software company, called TechFaith Software China, that will focus on advancing 3G services.

Qualcomm will also partner with UTStarcom to develop the Qualcomm Deployable Base Station, designed to deliver mobile communications capabilities for emergency, first response and defense applications.

Nokia predicts the end of cameras, video cameras and walkmans for the benefit of mobile phones. Already in 2005, Nokia was the first manufacturer of cameras in the world with 100m units produced. Walkman manufacturers are also under pressure: Nokia plans to manufacture some 80m units of mobile phones with embedded music this year, and Samsung will provide an handset with 8Go memory space.

Wavecom is to buy Sony Ericsson’ s machine-to-machine business, which focuses on automotive and industrial wireless solutions.

Huawei introduces its latest range of CDMA mobile phone handsets in India. It has been authorized to provide a loan of up to $10m to Colombia Móviles (Ola) in Colombia, by the government.

LG is introducing its "Chocolate" GSM mobile phone in Europe.

Euroset (Russian handset retailer) plans to make an IPO of 10%-15% of its shares in late 2006.

Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) launched an adaptive WiMAX antenna to ensure optimal data throughput and a reduction in overall cell-to-cell interference across the WiMAX network.