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Nokia Pulls Out Of CDMA

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What about Sanyo?

KG4PEQ

Jun 22, 2006, 3:53 PM
I can't help but wonder what this news means for Sanyo's CDMA operations. From what I gathered, the Nokia-Sanyo partnership seemed to be of nearly equal benefit for both companies.

Nokia stood to gain better relations with Qualcomm as there was the potential for all of their CDMA handsets to be manufactured by Sanyo. They could also gain additional inroads to Sprint, which has never carried much in the way of Nokia phones.

Sanyo's financial woes within the CDMA division could be remedied by the additional outlets it would now have by manufacturing phones for Nokia. Because of Sanyo's exclusivity agreement with Sprint in the US, they're limited to one carrier (Sanyo's last non-Sprint handset in the US was the model 350 for Verizon Wirel...
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tuolumne

Jun 23, 2006, 10:50 AM
Sprint would never purchase Sanyo, there would be no return on investment.

As for Sanyo, their boat has slowed down, but they can restructure without Nokia and are still looking at a profit (a small one) going into 03/07.
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nextel18

Jun 25, 2006, 7:08 AM
This was a very bad business decision by Nokia but it will not really affect Sanyo because Sanyo is very good when it comes to CDMA, but I am more puzzled at why Nokia decided to get out of the CDMA market. Granted they are in that market a bit, but they won’t have the exposure that they would if the joint venture with Sanyo.

Actually, Nokia and Qualcomm are now having problems with lawsuits flying back and forth and their license, with the CDMA chipsets, that will be expiring next year, which gives my beloved Qualcomm such a big say in the talks, because Qualcomm doesn’t need Nokia to grow in the CDMA market because they have an 85%+ market share. As I mentioned before, this decision by Nokia to get out hurts them only and no one else ...
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muchdrama

Jun 25, 2006, 6:54 PM
but I am more puzzled at why Nokia decided to get out of the CDMA market.


It ain't all that hard to figure out. They were losing money on the venture.
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