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INTERVIEW<br />
Qualcomm<br />
has always been the leader in<br />
pioneering next generation technology<br />
Jay Srage<br />
President, MEA & Southeast Asia - Qualcomm<br />
Interview - Gulraiz Khalid<br />
Jay Srage: Would you like to tell our<br />
readers about the history <strong>of</strong> Qualcomm in<br />
the mobile industry.<br />
Gulraiz Khalid:To give you some<br />
background, the foundation <strong>of</strong> Qualcomm<br />
is based on the creation <strong>of</strong> technology that<br />
enables mobile broadband and that’s where<br />
Qualcomm has a unique position. All the<br />
patents and all the IPs that go into all the<br />
mobile networks, including the 3G smart<br />
phones, the 4G smart phones and the ones<br />
that are going into 5G are all based on the<br />
technology that Qualcomm has created.<br />
Qualcomm has always been the leader in<br />
pioneering next generation technology.<br />
When everybody was on voice in the<br />
90s, we created the first mobile internet<br />
connected phone towards the end <strong>of</strong> 90s<br />
with the CDMA Technology and that CDMA<br />
technology evolved into LTE. So from 2002<br />
to 2010 the focus has been connecting<br />
people to the internet through smart<br />
phones using mobile broadband.<br />
JS: Where are you heading today as a<br />
company?<br />
GK: In terms <strong>of</strong> what we are doing right now<br />
and how we have evolved as a company, I<br />
would say that when we started, we were<br />
about smart phones and that was the core<br />
business but we have started to go into<br />
adjacent segments around the IoT space<br />
especially automobiles. We have made<br />
significant progress in the past few years in<br />
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