Examples of use of OFDMA
1. "We have also been working on OFDMA for a number of years internally," said Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm chief executive.
2. Flarion holds patents and makes equipment for OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) technology, which promises data speeds at least 10 times faster than current third–generation phones.
3. While Flarion has held OFDMA trials in South Korea, the US and Europe, the standard is still being developed and full–scale commercial deployments are at least three years away, analysts said.
4. Qualcomm is betting operators will want to use OFDMA to serve mobile video to consumers and its MediaFLO subsidiary is using a version of the technology to develop a mobile network television service.
5. Tal Liani, analyst at Merrill Lynch, in a note on Thursday predicting the acquisition, said the real benefit of the deal would be for Qualcomm‘s chip division as current GSM, W–CDMA and future OFDMA technologies would need to co–exist together on mobile phones.