Allen, your assumption is that prices won't change. Competition will reduce prices.
Had I wanted to be more well-balanced I might have taken into consideration the fact that in some parts of the world voice wireless access runs as low as 2c or 3c a minute today.
My main point was that the data rates of HDR are quoted on a per channel basis, whereas GPRS rates are usually, though not always, quoted on a per user basis.
There's an entertaining advertisement by a DSL provider running recently that has an entire neighborhood up in arms with each other, as they're all online at the same time using cable modems and can't get decent speeds. The higher but shared rates of cable modems are worse than the slower but dedicated rates of DSL, according to this DSL provider at least. I'm left wondering, and nowhere have I seen it stated, what the service will look like to an individual HDR user.
And that, in turn, brings up the credibility of Qualcomm, but I see that's being thoroughly hashed out on this Nokia thread already. |
