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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 148.83+1.1%3:59 PM EST
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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (644)7/11/2000 10:58:31 AM
From: Valueman  Read Replies (6) of 197557
 
1X/HDR should suffice for a vast majority of 3G needs. What I don't understand is why more operators are not realizing this? It makes perfect sense, both economically and technologically. I can see the need for a whole new system in Europe, where spectrum in GSM-land is limited, and where new deployments have to be done no matter what to provide high data rates(and to justify the enormous expense of the new spectrum-a vicious circle at best). Elsewhere, especially Korea, threatening to deploy a W-CDMA system is insane. The solution is already deployed. That same thought process should apply to all current CDMA systems. Obviously, QCOM thinks the same way. Will the operators be rational and use their existing spectrum rationally, or will they blow money on the next big dream?

Can someone refresh me on the spectrum use by the likes of Sprint, PrimeCo,Verizon, etc.? I seem to recall Sprint, as an example, of having 15 MHz of spectrum in most cities, and they were using only a fraction of this(5 MHz?). Nextwave had 30 MHz in their license areas. Is this not sufficient capacity to deploy all the voice and data one would need in the foreseeable future, especially with the dramatic efficiency gains coming with 1XEV/HDR?
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