“Grand Hyatt Hotel” Dubai was the center stage for Qualcomm Seminar for Afghanistan and CIS countries on “3G CDMA Technologies”. The significance of the seminar was the attendance of a well represented delegation from Ministry of Communication, Afghanistan, which has an operational CDMA network by Afghan Telecom in Kabul and are expanding the system country wide. The seminar hosted by Qualcomm Inc. USA, the patent holder and developers of the CDMA Technology was assisted by Central Asian CDMA Forum.

Dr. Thomas O’Neill, vice president, Qualcomm gave the welcome address, followed by George Mansho of the CDMA Development Group. Speaking on the occasion George Mansho unveiled the evolution of CDMA and the milestones it covered to reach the 3G CDMA2000 level; complimented by a brief but thorough 3G market overview by Shahid Mahmud (CEO InterActive Communications).

Following are the telecom experts, who presented their papers in the seminar; Dr. Ismail Shah (IQRA University/Central Asian CDMA Forum), Mullaguru Naidu (Qualcomm, USA), Mohammad Raheel Kamal (Qualcomm, USA), Artem Orange (Dialog, Belarus/Pakistan), Thomas Erickson (CCF), Khalid Khan (Central Asian CDMA Forum), Khaled Rifai (Lucent), Stephane Ledreau, Ted Kim (Ubiquam), Zhou Lingling, Noel Kirkaldy (Motorola) and Lu Xingang of Huawei Technologies.