re: Telstra
<< You got your guy, I've got mine, but mine is an Euro, too >>
Please, not another cool move of the year Irwin lunch with FT, as Grahame would say:
In February 2001, Jacobs ventured into enemy territory - a GSM congress in Cannes, France - and predicted that W-CDMA deployments would be delayed by two years, providing an advantage for Qualcomm’s own technology. Markets were unimpressed, wiping 20% off Qualcomm’s value for Jacobs’ act of talking down the market. Despairing investors would have preferred him to have kept his mouth shut.
Grahame Lynch, btw, is an Australian.
Speaking of Australia, the article below is about Telstra's CDMA net.
One of the more interesting decisions yet to be made for IMT-2000 3G spectrum already licensed, is the one Telstra will make. My initial thought is they would go CDMA ... but I'm not so sure ... and they ain't telling ... but Qualcomm's investment in Aussie spectrum might be for a reason.
>> Australia Cdma2000 Network
mobilecomms-technology.com
Telstra is currently carrying out trials for high-speed data transmission across its new Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network. The CDMA network, which was installed by Nortel Networks in a contract worth $300 million, was launched commercially in mid-1999. As the new network was completed subscribers were moved across from the older analogue AMPS network, which was switched off in stages. The AMPS service closed in the five major capital cities and in 130 non-metropolitan sites on 31st December 1999, leaving a further 270 sites which will remain open until 30th June 2000 or 31st December 2000 as the new CDMA network is rolled out. No new base station sites were needed for the new service. All antennas for the service have been located on existing AMPS or GSM sites.
There were major concerns in Australia over whether CDMA would be an adequate replacement for the AMPS service, which covered 93% of the population. Concerns centred on whether those in remote areas would be able to receive signals, considering that the range of a CDMA base station is far less than that of an AMPS station. Once the network is fully shut down in December 2000, this will be known. Software is available that allows the range of a CDMA station to be increased from around 55km to 150km.
The Network
The Telstra CDMA network is primarily aimed at the voice market, and it hopes to switch all its analogue subscribers over without losing any to rival GSM operators. However, it was constructed with data traffic in mind for the future, and trials of Nortel Networks' cdma2000 1XRTT high-speed data technology were started in mid-2000. The trials include verification of data throughput speed, voice capacity increase, coverage impacts and potential applications in a live network configuration.
The trial includes testing and verification of high-speed data, data applications including web browsing, mCommerce (mobile commerce) and enhanced voice capacity. The 1XRTT specification for high-speed data transmission is 144 kbps (kilobits per second). Based on Nortel Networks' CDMA Metro Cell base stations, and 1XRTT voice and data terminals from Samsung, the world's leading supplier of CDMA terminals, the trial is also intended to demonstrate the smooth evolution from existing Nortel Networks' radio infrastructure to third generation (3G) networks.
cdma2000
cdma2000 is the 3G solution based on the IS-95 standard for CDMA networks. It is both an air interface and a core network solution for delivering high-bandwidth services, especially those with bursty data profiles like the Internet. It was developed in the US by the Operators Harmonisation Group and will prove seamless global roaming with the other 3G standards, especially W-CDMA (Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access), under the IMT-2000 standards and frequencies. <<
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