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QUALCOMM and MetroPCS sign agreement to deploy BREW-based services
October 22, 2003
(Espicom Business Intelligence)

QUALCOMM Inc and MetroPCS Inc, a US wireless service provider offering flat rate, unlimited, anytime service for US$35 a month, have signed a definitive agreement to launch downloadable wireless products and services based on QUALCOMM's binary runtime environment for wireless (BREW)platform to subscribers on MetroPCS' all-digital, CDMA2000 1X network. The launch of BREW-based services will allow MetroPCS subscribers in San Francisco, Sacramento, Miami, and Atlanta, to select from a variety of games, ringtone packages, entertainment, and productivity applications, and download them over the air to their mobile phones. The BREW solution gives MetroPCS a secure, turnkey system that can be quickly and easily integrated into its existing CDMA2000 1X network.

Nineteen manufacturers are currently offering more than 90 BREW-enabled devices to consumers. Wireless operators currently offering commercial BREW services include: Verizon Wireless, ALLTEL, Midwest Wireless, and US Cellular in the US, China Unicom, KDDI in Japan, KTF in South Korea, Telstra in Australia, VIVO in Brazil, and BellSouth International in Colombia.

This article was published in International Telecommunications Intelligence www.espicom.com/iti and has been reproduced with the permission of the publisher. Copyright ITI.


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