OT: Oh oh, Emporer's clothes alert!!
Hi Frank,
Re: (Going off topic for a moment, Sprint PCS is now notorious for oversubscribing its PCS service, i.e., undersizing their ability to complete incoming calls due to too few outgoing air links. I'm finding that many of my calls -- I've done this under controlled conditions when I've suspected that it was happening -- are now going directly to voicemail instead of being cut through to my handset. This happened last year too, but was better for a spell. But I'm finding that it's happening again. Another variation of bandwidth chicken, as the carrier tests the limits of user tolerances. Now, if we're having these problems today with "voice" channels rated at 13 kb/s, what are we to find when we go to "multimedia" channels rated at 2 Mb/s?)
Oh oh, Emporer's clothes alert!!
I'm sorry, really, I am sorry but I object violently to this statement of yours. First of all, you wicked observer, you hide the underbelly of the entire industry under the rubric of 'going off topic'??? Dude, this is the only topic in William Esrey and Mike Armstrong's offices that has any resonance there. The rest of the blather about 3G, 4G, forgery, is mere postulating and posing by the press release production personnel.
I have to commend Walt Mossberger of the WSJ for at least attempting to clue the breathless investor in to the reality of 3G. This $#!+'s expensive. No mere mortal can handle the per minute charges.
Oh oh, now I stepped in it, just as the press is set to drive WAP into the floor for insipid performance, I'm suggesting that no one in their right mind will pay the Mb rate for 3G. Oh well, caught between a wooky and a swippery swope. At least under my scope.
Tou Loose, Le Faineant |
