Qualcomm Sees CDMA Base at 20 Million in 2004

Qualcomm has made the company project 20 million CDMA subscribers in India by the year end, more than double from now. The company is betting high on India in the wake of the fast ramp up of CDMA subscriber base by Reliance and Tata Indicom last year and Indicom's planned expansion throughout the country in the next few months. The two operators are also planning to launch pre-paid services that can push subscriber growth further. The company also expects the two operators to push its software platform BREW, which helps develop and deploy over-the-air data services and applications (music, video, e-mails, games etc) alongside the currently prevalent Java.