SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed up Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless Communications Inc. (APBW) as the latest carrier to offer Qualcomm’s BREW application download service.
Indeed, the CDMA2000 1x carrier is working to expand the capabilities of its CDMA network as just last week APBW signed a deal with wireless technology company Thin Multimedia to set up a traffic monitoring system for wireless users.
“As Taiwan’s first operator to commercialize 3G services, APBW prides itself on leading in wireless innovations-such as a national CDMA2000 network and multimedia services,” said Chungming An, the carrier’s chief executive officer. “With Qualcomm’s support and cooperation, we will become the first operator in Taiwan to launch a mobile multimedia service, and we will continue to work jointly to promote advanced technologies for bringing new services to the marketplace faster and efficiently.”
APBW joins Verizon Wireless in the United States, KTF in South Korea, KDDI in Japan, China Unicom, VIVO (the joint venture between Telefonica Moviles and Portugal Telecom) in Brazil and Telstra in Australia in offering BREW services.
Separately, Qualcomm said it signed a deal with CardioNet, which provides mobile outpatient cardiac telemetry technology and services, to offer a heart monitoring service over CDMA networks. Using Qualcomm’s QConnect service, monitoring devices can wirelessly transmit patient ECG data to the CardioNet Monitoring Center and ultimately deliver information to physicians for diagnosis and therapy management.
