Nokia Pulls Out Of CDMA
What about Sanyo?
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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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.
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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