WCDMA news from FierceWireless

Private equity firm OpenGate Capital will acquire UTStarcom's mobile solutions business. The deal is expected to close in about three weeks. Financial terms were not disclosed. UTStarcom says the... Read more >>

China reportedly is ready to issue 3G licenses after six years of promises and delays. While announcing it plans to restructure China's telecom service providers, China's regulators also announced... Read more >>

Despite the country's promise to roll out its TD-SCDMA 3G standard before the Olympics, one analyst contends that based on the average trial periods of new wireless networking technologies, the... Read more >>

A recent forecast issued by market analysis firm ABI Research suggests the potential for... Read more >>

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. rejected Qualcomm's bid to lift an injunction that stopped it from selling chips found by a California jury to infringe on... Read more >>

AT&T announced plans to extend its deployment of 3G in the U.S. to more than 80 additional cities. The WCDMA/HSDPA operator said its 2008 deployment plans would result in AT&T 3G service in... Read more >>

In a tentative decision, an administrative law judge ruled that Nokia's GSM/GPRS/EDGE handsets do not infringe on three of Qualcomm's patents. The case is Read more >>

Qualcomm won two court victories last week: The ITC dropped Nokia's patent infringement case and Broadcom announced it would not refile its lawsuit, but rather accept the reduced fines ($19.6... Read more >>

According to a report in the Financial Times, Alcatel-Lucent is poised to lose a WCDMA network... Read more >>

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Taiwan's MediaTek is buying Analog Devices' cellular chip assets for $350 million. The report pegs the deal as a big win for China's 3G market. The... Read more >>