Sprint uses code division multiple access technology, or CDMA, in its cellular networks, while Nextel uses Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) iDEN hardware.

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Seybold is still bullish on the long-term prospects of Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which has made progress penetrating the European mobile phone market with its code division multiple access wireless technology.

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Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.

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It signed a deal earlier this year to source phones from an undisclosed Asian contractor that will work with the carrier's chosen technology, code-division multiple access (CDMA).

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Now, Qualcomm is a promising telecom company with a lock on a technology (called code division multiple access) that is becoming the standard for digital cell phones.

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But Samsung Electronics, an affiliate of the Samsung chaebol, did have one thing going for it: The firm was totally committed to the up-and-coming phone standard of the time, known as CDMA technology (or code division multiple access), adopted by Sprint.

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He said Dell's customers are telling the company they prefer the idea of mobile Internet access via wireless notebook computers, using technology such as the Bluetooth and 802.11 standards as well as emerging wireless telecommunications technology such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).

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