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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 175.25+0.6%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4899)11/23/2000 3:00:54 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (3) of 197009
 
Young people love SMS because it's cheap. They will not send pictures with their messages when they find out the price they have to pay to do so, especially when they compare the quality and price of those pictures to the quality and price they pay to send them on their home PC -- excellent quality, zero price. They will not download audio and video to their wireless handset for the same reason. Nor will anybody else. The foolish providers that paid billions for 3G spectrum will soon regret it -- actually the process of regret has already started.

3G will take off when:

1. The display and audio quality on the handset is comparable to that on the home PC.

2. The price of such downloads is comparable to that on the home PC.

Otherwise, people will simply wait to get home before doing those high data rate downloads. Just like they wait to get into cell phone range to do their phoning, instead of using Globalstar.
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