Qualcomm must first produce its own base stations to promote CDMA networks. Later, in order to promote CDMA network, Qualcomm sold its base station communication service to Ericsson in Europe. The move is to dispel the industry's concerns about Qualcomm's monopoly of communications and terminals. After that, Qualcomm devoted himself to terminal services, while Ericsson made the communication base station bigger and bigger. However, due to its own business problems, Motorola sold its communication business to a European company. At that time, Motorola also had several communication network research and development capabilities, but it did not persist until the end and was sold to Nokia.
So far, there are only four mainstream enterprises in the global communication industry, namely Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson and ZTE. These four communication vendors are also major companies deploying 5G networks in the world at present, and they have mastered most patents of 5G technology. Moreover, Huawei and ZTE have become the most competitive companies in the current market because of their higher cost performance.
With the increasing competition in the 5G network, South Korea's Samsung has also started the business of 5G base stations, but its current market share is still relatively small, and there is no threat for the time being. Japan's Fujitsu and NEC also announced the production of their own 5G base stations, but the competitiveness of these two manufacturers is far less than these four mainstream manufacturers.