Tero: Re: 3G pricing
Thanks for your views on what is a good thing in the market and the economies of scale "Nokia, Ericsson, NEC, Panasonic, Mitsubishi - the world's leading 3G developers of consumer products are backing W-CDMA" can bring to the operator.
What do you feel the new subsidy model is going to be like for a WCDMA operator? Are they going to be as willing to bring down the price on the device when their cost of acquisition is so high? Do you think the CDMA2000 operator has an advantage here of capturing a subscriber with a lower cost phone (possibly the same models with new ASIC) that is being produced by the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Finns, Swedes, Germans and Americans? Remember his cost of acquisition will be much lower if he upgraded from IS-95. IMO, the WCDMA operator will be in the same shoes as the "Hong Kong and Singapore" operators with CDMA competing against GSM today.
Would also like your views on what you think an entry, mid, and high tier WCDMA phone will cost (to the carrier) in 2001 and '02.
TIA for your response.
Rox |
