but "data" demands every bit is finally correct (after all error correction) as noone can know how important that one bit might be, buy/sell bit, bankaccount or whatever.
Right, EKG. Whatever. My [intuitive] point exactly, for which I have been chastised by the alleged cognoscenti and called intellectually dishonest.
No one has answered or even begun to deal with my question. Why, after suggesting that HSCSD fills in GPRS's gaps, did Nokia reduce the speed for HSCSD down to 14 kbps by inserting error correction which it did not previously have, as appears to be the case in the translation from the German Nokia site Eric posted? Is it because, as you and Nokia have stated, errors in the transmission of data are unacceptable? Did the handoff difficulties play a part in the decision? I intuitively suspect that handoff is probably the time at which errors occur most frequently, but what the hell do I know, right?
Other questions which come to mind: If 14 is the speed of the system after presumably necessary error correction, what possible incentive can there be for even a corporate user to pay more for a lousy 5 kbps improvement? Users can probably live with errors in the transmission of video, songs, etc.
How can the uncorrected 40+ kbps data rate be pimped to corporate users if buy/sell can be wrong, EKG misleading, etc.? |
