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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 180.90+2.1%Oct 31 9:30 AM EST
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To: foundation who wrote (26293)8/31/2002 9:21:47 AM
From: Clarksterh  Read Replies (3) of 196412
 
Ben - My guess is that you will know that the standard is 'only' a year or two away from completion when you find CRs coming in as a result of one vendor testing their handset against another vendors basestation. Because until that happens there is literally no practical way to ensure that a set of specifications that is in the 10's of thousands of pages is complete. Do you know if the 3GPP vendors are even planning to test their pieces of equipment against each other? Given my engineering experience with some of these vendors I would bet that they aren't planning any such rigorous testing and it will only happen after two different networks roll out and they 'discover' that roaming is not possible. Given that I would predict that WCDMA will not be commercially or technically viable for at least another 2 to 3 years. And that is probably optimistic since it assumes that the vendors can actually resolve the technical incompatibility issues without getting political.

Thanks for tracking and posting all this spec stuff and thereby prodding me to think about this another way - one in which I have first hand seen the lack of technical rigor in some of the European telecom companies.

Clark
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