ZTE, Qualcomm Team Up to Enhance UMTS Performance
July 10, 2009
Chinese telecom solution provider ZTE and US
wireless communications chip supplier Qualcomm jointly announced that they will
team up to advance the capacity and performance of UMTS (Universal Mobile
Telecommunications System) to close to LTE (Long Term Evolution) level, according
to a press release by Qualcomm on July 5, 2009. The two companies expect to enhance
UMTS data throughput by 60% and voice capacity by up to 45% by incorporating
Qualcomm's ULIC (Uplink Interference Cancellation) technology into ZTE's
next-generation UMTS base station products. It is projected that operators
utilizing the new solution will be able to deliver a user experience comparable
to LTE in a similar channel bandwidth.