10th July - Huawei Technologies announced that it successfully hosted the global 3GPP2 super meeting and SC/OP meeting in Kunming, China attended by 200 industrial experts coming from the likes of China Unicom, Verizon Wireless, KDDI, SKT, Qualcomm. Huawei also used the event to propose an Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) architecture concept which was adopted by 3GPP2 and which can support operator networks achieving a peak rate of 288Mbps, facilitating the evolution of CDMA 2000 technology to UMB.

During the meeting, Huawei and industrial experts focused on topics including UMB access network, 3GPP2 evolved network and Multimedia Domain (MMD) enhancement. Among them, the 3GPP2 evolution network proposals, including common accessing platform and flattened network issues, will pave the way from current network to UMB network for CDMA operators. Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC), VoIP and HDTV over wireless broadband, which enables the subscribers accessing wireless broadband multimedia service anytime and anywhere were also covered by MMD enhancement proposals as was the issue of large capacity VoIP and Video Telephony services that can be deployed by CDMA operators without further investment.

"3GPP2 devotes itself to CDMA standard evolution, co-operates with the likes of the 3GPP, IETF, and WiMAX forums and promotes CDMA industrial development." said Mr. Wan Yi, Chairman of the 3GPP2 Steering committee (SC).

"Verizon Wireless has strong interest in the standardization of MMD supplement services and Huawei is very strong in this field." said Mr. Zhao Zheng, a delegate from Verizon Wireless.

"UMB networks open the door for operators entering the era of FMC where individuals, homes and enterprises are always online achieving our goal of providing wireless broadband and information." said Mr. Cai Liqun, President of Huawei CDMA product line. "Through collaboration with leading operators and companies including China Unicom, Verizon Wireless, Qualcomm, Huawei is actively involved in UMB standardization work and is one of the most important contributors in 3GPP2 applying for 14 percent of UMB related patents."

As of June 2007, Huawei serves more than 100 million CDMA users worldwide, has won 47 EV-DO commercial contracts, and is committed to leading the evolution of CDMA technology to UMB.