If there was no CDMA of Unicom in those days, it can be said that there would never be Qualcomm's monopoly on mobile phone CPU.
No, China Unicom wants to introduce CDMA. In fact, China Unicom was very happy to build its own GSM network.
When China Unicom was first established, it was building a GSM network like China Mobile, and a part of the network had already been built. Without CDMA, China Unicom may not never develop a small horse-drawn cart in the 2G era.
In the 2G era, the most extensive network standard is GSM in Europe. In the late 2G era, Qualcomm collected almost all the patents of CDMA and began to promote its own CDMA system, but it didn't go well at first.
The biggest turning point was in the China market. At that time, the US government regarded CDMA entry into China as a prerequisite to support China's entry into WTO, so China had to introduce CDMA. The task of building CDMA network was given to China Unicom, which was still weak at that time. At that time, China Mobile had built a huge GSM network. Obviously, China Mobile is not suitable for building another CDMA network, so China Unicom must carry the cauldron of CDMA.
When China Unicom completed the initial coverage of the construction of the C network, the reform of the telecommunications industry began again. With the arrival of the 3G era, the C network was sold to telecommunications.
On the basis of China Unicom's C network, China Telecom has been upgraded. In 2008, C network was replaced and upgraded a lot, and the CDMA2000 1x EVDO network was built, which is the 3G network of China Telecom.
The rise of Qualcomm chips is closely related to the promotion of all-netcom mobile phones of China Telecom.
When China Telecom took over the C-network, it found a very serious problem, that is, there were few terminals and models in the C-network, and mobile phone manufacturers were unwilling to produce them. Why? Because Qualcomm is too greedy, because of the existence of Qualcomm tax, the price of C-network mobile phone is much higher than that of other mobile phones, so it is unwilling to produce it, which is why "once in telecommunications, it is as deep as the sea, and it is hard to buy mobile phones from now on".
Users have to buy new mobile phones because they change their mobile phone cards. At that time, China Unicom and China Mobile had at least GSM standard, that is, when the two mobile phones were not online, they could at least communicate with each other, so the development of telecom users was not smooth.
In this context, Telecom began to spend huge sums of money to subsidize mobile phone manufacturers, and adopted various means to promote all-netcom mobile phones. Later, I persuaded Unicom to promote it together. Finally, China Mobile had to accompany China Unicom and China Telecom to promote all-netcom mobile phones.
All Netcom mobile phones must support CDMA, and chip manufacturers such as MediaTek, Texas Instruments, NVIDIA, etc. Just because of the CDMA baseband problem, we were beaten out of the water by Qualcomm, and finally Qualcomm became the leading company. Of course, MediaTek also has some other problems, but the baseband problem of C network is always a big reason.
In a word, if China Unicom had not introduced CDMA, there would certainly be no monopoly of Qualcomm chips. However, in those days, it was impossible to have this kind of if. After all, China still urgently needs to join the WTO.
CDMA network and CDMA technology are two concepts. At present, 3G networks use CDMA technology, including not only CDMA2000 network dominated by Qualcomm, but also WCDMA and TD-SCDMA. Therefore, even if CDMA network was not introduced in that year, Qualcomm will still dominate the 3G network.
The above content represents my opinion and is for reference only.
This is the requirement of the United States in the WTO accession negotiations!
There was no support from Unicom at that time. In the analysis stage, Qualcomm will also benefit greatly from its huge technical reserves. Don't consider the scale of Unicom. In fact, China Unicom's CDMA network is only a small part of Qualcomm's global network. Qualcomm's network equipment was indeed technologically advanced at that time. Compare tdsCDMA in our country. WCDMA in Europe. Technology is still much higher. The most important thing is that it was supported by the American government at that time. At that time, China, Europe and the United States each supported their own part. This is the root cause.
Obviously, China Unicom helped Qualcomm. From loss to profit, it has now become an oligarch. Don't even think about it There is a deal behind it.
All netcom mobile phones are a waste to many people, like I haven't used telecommunications for more than ten years.