The 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Awards were presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at the 3G CDMA Americas Regional Conference.

2009 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Awards Presented by the CDMA Development Group

Industry Awards | Consumer Entertainment Awards | Enterprise Solutions Award | Social and Economic Solutions Award

Fran O'Brien, Technology Director, Wireless Standards Development and Industry Relations, Alcatel-Lucent
Awarded for his significant contributions to the CDMA industry while leading Alcatel-Lucent’s standards engineering efforts, global spectrum policy development and industry relations for the past 15 years.

China Telecommunications
Since launching 3G EV-DO Rev. A mobile broadband services at the beginning of 2009, China Telecom has extended its CDMA2000 network to more than 500 cities nationwide and is the leading 3G operator in China. With a selection of 566 devices from over 160 suppliers, China Telecom’s handset sales have increased by 200% in 2009. China Telecom is now serving more than 48 million CDMA2000 subscribers, an increase of 20 million new users within the past 9 months.

Subscriber Technology Innovation:
This award is given to the company that has demonstrated innovative thinking in terms of services supported and terminal design. Resulting products take advantage of the inherent benefits and latest technological developments of 3G CDMA, offering consumers state-of-the-art terminals in both features and packaging.

Airvana
Airvana’s HubBub CDMA2000 femtocell provides enterprises and consumers with the ability to consolidate all of their office and home telephony and broadband Internet access services with a single preferred mobile service provider. Not only are Airvana’s femtocells providing improved 3G CDMA coverage and capacity, they are becoming the central point of integrated telecommunications within the office or household through its integrated router and telephony services.

Network Technology Innovation:
This award is given to the company that has introduced network capabilities that allow 3G CDMA operators flexible and cost-effective solutions for implementing advanced features and an easy evolution path to future network enhancements.

Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent has played a lead role in the standardization of enhanced High-Rate Packet Data (eHRPD), known commercially as the enhanced EV-DO core and radio network. By March 2009, all 3GPP2 eHRPD standards were essentially completed, 15 months from when the proposed standard was introduced to 3GPP2. This aggressive timeline was accomplished largely due to the technological expertise and effective shepherding conducted by Alcatel-Lucent. Alcatel-Lucent provided the editorship and leadership in drafting the major core network document, X.S0057, the radio document, C.S0087, and the radio access network (RAN) interface document, A.S0022.

Innovation in Consumer Entertainment Services:
This award is given to the operator that has leveraged the capabilities of 3G CDMA to introduce a broad array of innovative and appealing consumer entertainment services (music, games, mobile TV, social networking, etc.) to the market.

Innovation in Consumer Entertainment Services Development:
This award is given to the company that has developed innovative and appealing entertainment applications or services (music, games, mobile TV, social networking, etc.) for 3G CDMA operators.

Innovation in Wireless Enterprise Solutions Development:
Given to the application developer that has leveraged the capabilities of the 3G CDMA wireless medium to offer innovative mobile applications that enable companies to streamline their operations, increase worker productivity and achieve a compelling return on their investments.  

AirWalk Communications, for EdgePoint PRO Enterprise Femtocell
The debut of Airwalk’s EdgePoint PRO in early 2009 introduced the wireless industry to a new product segment: enterprise femtocells. Enterprise users often experience low RF coverage in buildings, peak time capacity issues and a lack of mobility throughout the office. The EdgePoint PRO is a compact cellular access point which provides premier cellular service inside office buildings, allowing operators to deliver a reliable and affordable solution to expand their CDMA2000 network, capture the growing enterprise market segment and increase their revenues.

Innovation in Wireless Social and Economic Solutions Development:
This award is given to the application developer that has leveraged the capabilities of the 3G CDMA wireless medium to offer innovative mobile applications that enable companies to streamline their operations, increase worker productivity and achieve a compelling return on their investments.

Reliance Communications
Together with Reliance Communications, Reliance Energy deployed CDMA2000-enabled Automated Meter Reading (AMR) modems across Mumbai to automatically and remotely read electrical power meters from a central location. Developed in-house, these modems are installed at the customers’ premises and then verified through remote software to check the connectivity with the remote server. A forward and backward integration of the AMR server with existing platforms was developed to provide a highly-efficient end-to-end solution for billing, analyzing the load on the grid, logging critical parameters and checking for meter tampering. This has resulted in reducing billing and accounting errors, leading to consumer satisfaction in this challenging emerging market.