Qualcomm Gives Up On UMB, Switches to LTE

I'm shocked no one has commented yet. This is huge. Not a huge surprise, but still huge. Qualcomm - the CDMA company - has essentially given up on CDMA.

This is way bigger than when they gave up on EVDV, and that was a big deal.

Now it's basically done; there will be one global standard for all phones: LTE.

Of course, LTE incorporates many CDMA technologies, and Qualcomm will do just fine making LTE chips... but the era of two major, incompatible technology "camps" competing against each other seems to be drawing to a close.

UMB is dead in the water, and 21 comments later, all that need be said has been said.

Let's all pause contemplatively, and move on. 🙂

If there is a single standard in the US, would the bigger companies be more jumpy to get into mergers and such?

AT&T (ma bell) buys a lot of small carriers which are GSM. Verizon has just purchased Alltel (which is CDMA).

If that ends up being true, that would be very bad.

Do you think in a few years when a company releases a phone we will see these options:

maybe a Samsung with LTE

Then a LG with 1xrtt/ EVDO Rev A/B

Or eventually it will just be LTE for voice and data?

Thanks