re: WCDMA v. cdma2000 Comparative Cost - Singapore
Wondering if there was an RFI or RFP this is based on?
Neil Montefiore of MobileOne Singapore [cdmaOne] ... around S$500million to deploy WCDMA system compared with S$1billion with cdma2000.
>> cdma2000 Cost More to Deploy than WCDMA in Singapore
June 17, 2001
3G Newsroom
MobileOne gave Qualcomm a big blow earlier this week, when it revealed it was scrapping its 2G CdmaOne network in favour of the European GSM standard for 3G migration.
According to Mr Neil Montefiore, Chief Executive Officer of MobileOne in Singapore, the deployment of WCDMA 3G platform would be S$500 million cheaper than if it chose the CDMA2000 standard in Singapore. It had planned to drop the CDMA network even before the 3G auction was held early this year.
He shocked the telecom industry by announcing it would only cost MobileOne around S$500million to deploy WCDMA system compared with S$1billion with cdma2000.
Montefiore said the company was experiencing many problems with CDMA network and choice in favour to switch to WCDMA. He also believed there would be much more vendors supporting the European adopted UMTS standard.
Charles Levine, president of Sprint PCS, in favour of Cdma2000 said, "From what we've seen from a spectrum requirement, time to implement, cost and operating advantages, CDMA2000 is the way to go."
Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDMA Development Group, a group promoting CDMA technology said the CDMA standard has the flexibility to allow it to work on any infrastructure spectrum that an existing GSM or TDMA uses with backward compatibility. <<
- Eric - |
