Qualcomm Stops UMB, 4G race down to LTE and WiMAX
A shocking news released by Qualcomm last November when the company decided to stop the UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband) development. The company will now focus on developing Long Term Evolution (LTE) based platforms – which has been backed by the majority of WCDMA based mobile operators as their network upgrade path.
Previously Qualcomm is one of the competing participant in 4G technology development by using its own product, UMB. When they stop the UMB, the race down to LTE and WiMAX. In this race, WiMAX is ahead in the market as several countries have launched their WiMAX systems while LTE is still under trial. LTE will be in commercial in 2009.
As a supporter, Qualcomm is really serious with LTE. They have planned to start sampling multi-mode chips including LTE in the second quarter of 2009. Then, the competition for 4G service is getting high.
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Wimax would be the solution to the ever congested bandwidth of 3G~;;
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