Listen,standards are not relevant.Thats why i am iniating this stock this weekend as a short.Let me explain.
Omnipoint was down and out because they were gsm player and they had a small market in the usa.Then someone took them over because he realized that spectrum is spectrum is spectrum.Why???
Because chips like the one posted below,level the field for everyone.
There is no one world standard comong.No one will care going forward.
Respectfully my opinion.
Tuesday 2 November 1999
Breakthrough chip
Motorola hones in on a truly mobile phone
DAVE CARPENTER
AP
Motorola Inc. introduced a new computer chip yesterday that may
eventually allow mobile phones to work with most any wireless network
in the world.
The communications-equipment maker's stock shot higher following the
announcement, rising $4.625 a share to $102.125 on the New York
Stock Exchange.
Motorola said mobile-phone manufacturers will be able to use the same
chip in all products, regardless of which market they are being built for.
The so-called DSP56690 processor can support all the commonly used
wireless standards: code-division multiple access, global system for
mobile communications, integrated digital enhanced network and
time-division multiple access, as well as satellite-based products.
The chip also can be used for satellite-based signals and deliver
wireless Internet services.
"No other semiconductor manufacturer in the world offers one baseband
processor that can handle all of the world's cellular standards," said
Mario Rivas, general manager of Motorola's wireless-subscriber-systems
group in Austin, Tex., where the announcement was made.
Analysts hailed the new chip as significant, but not enough by itself to
make a true "go anywhere" mobile phone possible.
"This is only one half of what's needed to facilitate this," said Seamus
McAteer, an industry analyst at Jupiter Communications consultancy in
New York. The cell phone would also need to be equipped with different
chips for the varying radio-frequency interfaces in use.
"Going forward, it's not a stretch to expect that those elements will be
put on one piece of silicon," McAnteer said. "You're increasingly seeing
more functionality being added to the same piece of silicon."
Experts also found it noteworthy that the new chip was introduced by
Motorola, since the Illinois-based company was badly beaten by rivals
in the transition to digital cellular phones.
"It's a reflection that they learned the painful lesson of not being first
to market with their second-generation cellular phones," said Herschel
Shosteck, president of Herschel Shosteck Associates,
telecommunications consultants based in Wheaton, Md.
Developing the chip first won't pay dividends for Motorola for two to
three years, but "that in no way discounts or diminishes the advantage
of being first market," he added. |
