Sonera and Telia has, indirectly, IMO, always thought
GPRS is smart, 3G is stupid, and more capacity
is mainly a question of more bandwidth which
must be above 2Ghz, air interface modulation a secondary
matter except for achieving a global standard.
Personally I'm happy that WCDMA brought half of US
into a global standard, trusting the power of the
safety blanket of 4 patents, except that it went
the other way, QCOM is now the #1 isolationist.
GPRS and EDGE channel cards, especially handsets on top of
the GPRS packet network would be really nice for business,
especially as NIF technology makes it cheap to introduce
multi-multi-band handsets.
Ilmarinen.
P.S. It is no secrete that Sonera has suggested using
the GPRS (GSM) airinterface on the 3G bands, and that
neither Sonera nor Telia offered to build 20,000 WCDMA
masts in Sweden to achieve 99.8% coverage of live
steaming videos to get free licenses.
And that QCOM is still spinning around their
patents with its SpinCO and in general isn't
of much use building a global business, even for
its most loyal customers.
P.P.S The key, obviously, is to have a foot in all major
markets and to be able to offer a leader position if the
mess gets really bad?? (penny by penny, the way the
operator brings in the money) |
