*Convergence* < a direct sequence (DS) mode for WCDMA, a multi-carrier (MC) mode for cdma2000 and a time division duplex (TDD) CDMA mode. All three will be handled by a single chip with a dual chip rate of 3.6864mcps and 3.84mcps.
"The manufacturers agree it can be done and won't add to the cost," said Vinodrai. He said the proposal was supported by the thirty operators and 12 manufacturers which attended the OHG meeting in Toronto in April where it was formulated.>
Crap! [To coin a phrase and speaking with not much knowledge about chips or software to run them]. A dual chip rate will NOT be done with no extra cost. Nor will the ASIC and software run as quickly. Simplicity is good and always more effective and efficient if there is no compromise on functionality. The battery will go flat faster.
Unless that higher chip rate really does allow a higher data rate or some other meritorious function, it is just a sop to Ericy who will, I'm sure, promise the gold from their grandmother's teeth if it might get them some advantage. They are NOT interested in subscribers and service to end users. They are interested in trade protection, artificial barriers to entry and fragmenting the market to their advantage.
Irwin Jacobs did not hold out for a single chip rate to make CDMA a bad thing. He had good reason for it. I trust him. I don't trust Ericsson's gaggle [or coil, or perhaps it is a 'slime'] of hagfish.
Gregg Powers reckons fragmentation of 3G might be good for Qualcomm, but I'm still waiting for his defence of that proposition and answer to my objections to that thesis.
The operators wouldn't have a clue whether the two chip rates will reduce effectiveness. Ericy is putting the GSM crowd up to it. Madame Li Mofang is falling for it - actually, is part of it and leading the big Chinese GSM contingent.
Meanwhile, Ericy has been driving a multimedia truck around with 5 tonnes of electronics on the back to demonstrate how good their multimedia 3G system is. Yeah, right. Nokia and Ericy can't even make a cdmaOne ASIC of any use let alone a 3G one. Let's see them squash the truck into a pdQ. They'll need my graviton spin reversal system with some quantum collapsing to do it.
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They will argue that it proves market demand. Well, duh! You don't say. People want Anita [TM] and the demand is self-evident. The problem is building the device and supplying it and the service at the right price. I've had a model in the basement for 3 years now and have proven market demand. Okay, their truck-sized model works a bit better than my actual size model, but neither is the real thing.
These hagfish are like Milosevic and Hussein, they never seem to go away! They just ooze around, scavenging and bottom feeding on passersby.
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PS I bet a lot of ex-Qualcomm employees are looking to leave Ericy CDMA infrastructure division before they get a hagfish attached to their leg.
SurferM, there are also remote vibrators for collection - you put them in your pocket and when your phone goes, they vibrate. Allows for a smaller ThinPhone. Wear the vibrator on a necklace [or imaginative people could find all sorts of sensitive places] so that you feel it easily.
On sheep and Free Trade, it's nice to know that Bill and the NZ/Aussie governments read the thread! Bill C won't mess up $$billions in CDMA sales for some Wyoming sheep farmer's trade protection racket. |
