Nice article. No BS here...
Ed Chao, senior manager in the wireless networks group at Murray Hill, N.J.-based Lucent Technologies Inc., said Nokia's problem is the result of a "software shortcut" the company took with the 2G CDMA standard. According to Chao, if Nokia had followed the 2G CDMA specifications, the older phones should have been able to access the new 3G networks for voice calls and data transfer at lower speeds. As it is, Nokia's older phones can't access 3G networks at all....
An official at one carrier, who declined to be identified, doesn't accept Nokia's argument, however.
"It's their problem, and since we have a quarter-million of their phones in a warehouse, we think they should take them back and put in a new chip set. We don't want to sell these phones to our customers," the official said....
Bob Egan, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn., said Nokia's problems with CDMA aren't new. "Nokia has no clue on how to build network equipment or handsets for CDMA," he said. "They have failed miserably in the past, and this latest round is yet more evidence of their ineptness in realms beyond [Global System for Mobile Communications, the European standard]." |
