Friday, April 7, 2006

Qualcomm Targets EV-DO Rev B in 2007

San Diego-based Qualcomm said today that it expects to unveil its next generation, EV-DO high speed wireless standard in 2007. The firm said it has chipsets for EV-DO Rev. B on the way to commercialization by 2007. Qualcomm's EV-DO wireless standard provides high speed access and is targeted at high data rate wireless data, music, and multimedia access. EV-DO Rev B. is expected to raise the data rates to 4.9Mbps to each wireless channel, with the ability to combine channels for data rates of up to 73.5Mbps.

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