The hope is that there will be new technology capable of being used in Europe, the US and Japan, which the current systems are unable to do. This hoip haqs been polaced in danger by the emergence of two competing systems CDMA2000 and W-CDMA.
There’s enough engineering expertise around the world to bring together the two competing camps, they should be able together to deliver what the customer needs and what the operator needs, said Dennis Strigl, president and chief executive of Verizon at a conference in London.
Verizon is currently implementing with CDMA 2000 supplied by Qualcomm.
The British mobile operator Vodafone, which owns 45% of Verizon Wireless, plans to build 3G networks in Europe and Asia using W-CDMA, supplied by most mobile network suppliers.
Mr Strigl said that there were various methods open to the industry: A handset that gives customers the capability for roaming worldwide may be the short-term solution, the very short-term. The long-term solution is to give our customers the capability in the network (to allow roaming).
