Curitel and Audiovox to supply 10 Million CDMA Handsets to North America

Curitel and Audiovox are to supply 10 million CDMA mobile handsets for use in North America by the end of 2005. The $1.6 billion dollar deal will ship out to 12 major mobile carriers including Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS.

The handsets to be imported will range from a $130 basic candy-bar style to a $300 fully-featured multimedia handset with megapixel imaging and EV-DO network technology. Curitel expects to take more than 15% of the North American CDMA market share under the Pantech brand by the end of 2006.

Wouldn’t it be nice to see a version of the Curitel P1 available to North America? or how about the GI100 with biometric fingerprint recognition.