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Technology Stocks : WiMAX & Qualcomm: OFDM Technologies for BWA

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To: Eric L who wrote (51)	8/31/2005 11:52:05 AM
From: slacker711	of 86

Samsung declared it solved the problem and showed off the achievement during the 4G Forum. But in a test run late Monday, the system failed twice and managed to make it after 15-minute repairs. "We have been under immense pressure to address the handover in time with this forum just like you reporters suffer from a deadline. Things will be different in the future, because today’s trial run was conducted with prototype terminals," a Samsung engineer said. Ouch! I tried to dig up when the first WCDMA to WCDMA took place but had no luck. Ericsson demonstrated WCDMA to GSM handover in September '02 and it took about two years to get the problems ironed out. I would think that it should be substanitally easier for Samsung since they have far more control of the standard and will likely be the primary supplier of both handsets and infrastructure. Of course, none of that will be true for 802.16e <g>. "We originally planned to offer landline broadband and WiBro together at a monthly fee of 45,000 won but the government regulation blocked it," a KT spokesman said. Currently, KT levies about 30,000 won a month on subscribers for fixed-line high-speed Internet. The monthly price tag of WiBro is also expected to be around the range. The prices are definitely pretty good. If they could keep the bundle, I could see it gaining some traction. The recent DO price cuts at Verizon still leave it way too expensive to see real penetration. Slacker

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