I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana's. If re-elected, I promise that in eight years America will have cellphone service as good as Japan's, provided Japan agrees not to forge ahead on wireless technology.
Tom doesn't know a thing about cell phone infrastructure and doesn't take into account the geography or size of each nation. It costs billions to build a wireless system, not to mention FCC regulations that must be taken into account. Nor did he take into consideration the fact that Japan uses only one technology....for all intents and purposes......CDMA..... whereas the U.S. uses two...thank you ATT......which makes it much more difficult for providers to syncronize technologies. QUALCOMM is working dillegently on doing so.
I found this most interesting article on one of the threads that explains what to expect in the future.
Message 21565211
A few choice bits:
Presently, however, small-screen filmmakers aren't floating their stock on Wall Street, so would-be investors in the sector will have to wait. In the meantime, a more feasible investment strategy might focus on how to get all those great films to your PHONE, which brings us to the next point:
Someone will win the standards wars: Ever wonder how your CELL-PHONE carrier is able to transmit voice calls and text messages to such a wide spectrum of devices, including those made by its competitors?
In the wireless broadcast market, DVB H, a standard for distributing video to mobile devices, has already gained support from such industry heavyweights as Texas Instruments and Nokia (NOK), among others.
Qualcomm is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into a standard called FLO (short for "forward link only"). The San Diego wireless technology firm claims that using the FLO standard will reduce the cost of delivering wireless multimedia content by dramatically decreasing the number of transmitters needed to be deployed.
"There's an attempt to standardize, but the world is fractured," Jain said.
Standardization will take time, |
