Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Microsoft Unveils Software for CDMA Wireless

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 14:42:33 -0500

Microsoft Unveils Software for CDMA Wireless

Reuters
Monday, January 6, 2003; 10:32 AM

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. , the
world's largest software maker, said on
Monday that it would make its software for
mobile devices available for United States
CDMA-based wireless networks, a widely
used mobile phone system.

The new releases of Microsoft's Smartphone
and Pocket PC software for mobile phones
and wireless-enabled handheld computers
lets the software giant tap into a larger base
of more than 100 million potential users as it
seeks to expand its software beyond the
desktop.

"This enables a broader addressable market,
with more choice for customers and a new
platform," said Ed Suwanjindar, a mobile
devices product manager at Microsoft.

CDMA, or code division multiple access, is
the wireless technology developed by
Qualcomm Inc. that runs the mobile
networks of Verizon Wireless the biggest
U.S. wireless carrier and fourth-ranked
mobile operator Sprint PCS Group .

Those operators, which have more than 100
million CDMA users, are currently upgrading
their CDMA networks to third-generation
technology, which will allow mobile phone
users to browse the Web, send e-mail and
swap pictures -- features that are nearly
ubiquitous on computers using Microsoft's
software.

Microsoft already makes mobile device
software for the GSM/GPRS networks, a
competing wireless standard more widely
used around the globe that has 17 million
users in the United States.

Phones featuring Microsoft's new software for CDMA networks will be available later in
2003, said
Suwanjindar.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. <05930.KS> and Japan's Hitachi Ltd <6501.T> will
introduce CDMA-based mobile devices that use Microsoft's software later this year, the
companies
said in a statement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16766-2003Jan6.html

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