Funny. Now anyone who relays facts in an impartial manner, or simply doesn't buy into a vision of San Diego being the source of all things holy in the wireless world, is inevitably dubbed a "Eurocentric", even if he admittedly happens to be an enthusiastic Qualcomm investor. Then again, given the source that happens to be bringing forth this accusation, I shouldn't be surprised to see such pigeonholing take place. Interestingly enough, Joe McCarthy, one of the few people I can think of whose xenophobia seemed to rival yours, enjoyed engaging in such tactics as well.
Clearly this graph says it all:
See slide 2
Nice slide; and coming, all the while, from an objective, truth-loving source that would never dare attempt to slander the merits of W-CDMA in order to push a rival technology :-). Given the events of the past year, a slide coming from Qualcomm regarding the performance of W-CDMA is just about as credible as a slide coming from AMD regarding the performance of the Pentium IV.
It's also worth noting that an Ericsson spokesman has gone on record stating that even the first release (a.k.a. Release "A") of UMTS-UTRA will offer over 9x the capacity of GSM. This, of course, flies directly in the face of the oft-referenced Slide 2, which shows W-CDMA offering only about 3x the capacity of GSM. Not that I completely trust what Ericsson has to say on the issue of W-CDMA capacity either, but they're no less an impartial source on this subject than the infallible "Dr. J".
When it comes to the wireless industry, it seems to me that there are lies, damn lies, and PowerPoint slides.
Eric |
