Verve,
Don't play the charming innocent with me. <g>
The only people hitting their heads on the wall here are the whinny Qualcommers who keep on asking why Nokia is not buying chips from Qualcomm. That's a fair question for a dozen times, but then it gets real old, real quick.
Since they're not going away anytime soon, some of us are just having fun here toying around with their emotional launch codes to see if they will do a Bux and generate more than 100 posts a day on one board and more than 30 posts a day on another board.
Nurse Ruffie is just about close. He's already foul-mouthed as hell and spreading all kinds of rumors near option-expiry Fridays on the Yahoo BB. We might just get him to do a Bux in drag kinda thing on RB.<g>
Enough of the chit chat. Bye now.
Motorola's 3G Deployments Begin This Month
12:45 PM GMT on Jun 09, 2000
[CT Wireless, Vol. 4, No. 109 via COMTEX]
Motorola [MOT] not only plans to provide wireless carriers with general packet radio services (GPRS) and enhanced data rates for global evolution (EDGE) networks, but it also will introduce new wireless devices providing worthwhile experiences on those networks.
"You'll start getting a lot more services through the phone that you really can't get today because the data rates are too low," Mike Malone, general manager for the EDGE Systems division of Motorola's Network Solutions Sector.
"There are applications like you couldn't imagine from today's networks," Malone said in an interview with Wireless Today at SuperComm 2000 here.
While previous attempts by other wireless vendors to offer PDAs with embedded phones have not succeeded, Motorola plans to introduce handset models with PDA capabilities as well as to build phones that operate as modems for linking PDAs to wireless networks.
"The first product we'd build for the market will be phone-derived," Malone said.
British Telecom's [BTY] BT CellNet GSM operation in the United Kingdom will launch service using Motorola's GPRS technology later this month, Malone said. Also, more than 20 other carriers are conducting trials of GPRS networks.
European and Asian GSM carriers who acquire spectrum licenses to operate universal mobile telecom system (UMTS) networks will be capable of upgrading their data services with GPRS technology before building UMTS networks. Other GSM carriers as well as TDMA operators around the world will overlay EDGE networks as evolutionary steps to third-generation offerings.
However, for data purposes, EDGE is the equivalent of 3G services, Malone said. And wireless providers know that.
"They're urging us to go as fast as we can," he said, adding that service via EDGE networks will be common in U.S. markets within a year.
Wireless carriers are improving their rates for retaining subscribers by offering value-added services. They also know business customers and other heavy data users are influenced more by high data rates than by other offerings.
"What scares [carriers] at night is the ability to deliver high-speed data services," Malone said.
And Motorola knows some of its infrastructure customers will look to it for help in financing the acquisition of spectrum for 3G deployments, as well as for financing the deployment of its technology.
"It's a fact of life in the marketplace now," Malone said. "Motorola is a player in this marketplace."
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