VIA Telecom receives Nokia certification of its CDMA2000 chipset solutions, says paper

VIA Telecom, a subsidiary of VIA Technologies, has received certification of its CDMA2000 1x RTT-compliant handset chipsets from Nokia, with the handset vendor's China-based ODM partner BYD likely to start shipping CDMA handsets built using VIA Telecom's chipsets to Nokia in the first quarter of 2008, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

Nokia is expected to be able to strengthen its market share in India, leveraging VIA Telecom's successful cooperation with Cal-Comp Electronics in the manufacture CDMA handsets for India-based Reliance Communications, the paper noted.