Chaz,
After years and years of this propaganda about the supposed superiority of CDMA especially in dealing with data, if you go out to the marketplace, you will find that it has been all hype.
Instead of delivering data at even very low rate (sufficient for majority of uses), now they have a new pie in the sky - HDR, while you can't really buy anything.
I still don't know what it is that Sprint is delivering, but since they charge per minute, and not per byte it must be a full time circuit switched connection, not a packet connection.
CDMA data capability has still not matched AT&T's CDPD, which was introduced in 1993. It is true that AT&T has not been able to market it, but it doesn't take anything from the capability of the technology, and lack of it in the CDMA camp.
AT&T may finally have a winner on their hands. I just saw a demo of a new CDPD capable phone by Mitsubishi, that can do TDMA (previous ones were analog), has a larger screen (maybe 10 lines by 20 characters) and a built in web browser. CDPD comes with unlimited usage for $29.99.
And now, instead of surging forward (or at least catching up), CDMA is about to be lapped by Nextel in addition to AT&T.
But what would really give me a chuckle is if there were a GSM based packet data technology deployed somewhere (Europe?)
Joe |
