Cax,
<< Do you see that Nokia is lying? Explain this statement by Nokia from slide show: CDMA 1xev-do is spectrally inefficient as it requires data only channels.>>
When I saw that, I said, Gee, somewhat analogous to GPRS (data only time slots),
I propose that we have something like the televised Nixon-Kennedy debates updated to webcast format. Put Qualcomm and Nokia on the same stage and have them go at it in the slideware war of the century.
I would be most interested in the spectral efficiency portion of the debate from each of them.
After the debate we can ask questions to the participants with a lie detector attached.
As you may remember, I raised an eyebrow at Qualcomm's original slide - now updated and called "CDMA2000 Has Greater Voice vs. Data Throughput" which cites a Nokia ITU submission (not dated but didn't they once reference 1999?).
I also find the "Voice Capacity Comparison ... in 5MHz" slide that cites (evidently the original but not the revised edition of) Harri Holma and Antti Toskala book on WCDMA, interesting as it relates to the above slide..
Now I would have to think that each company thinks they can support their claims for technology that is not yet fully commercialized (in the case of 1xEV-DO and WCDMA).
Certainly I would think that any carrier who has seen both presentations with huge discrepancies in numbers is going to ask for an explanation of claims made, and how the numbers are arrived at.
As a tech seller, I sure would like to have my competition put their whole sales pitch on the web in slide presentations and whitepapers, like Qualcomm and Nokia have done, so I could be well prepared for my own presentation in a competitive situation.
Yum. Yum.
Slides are great, to the degree that you can back em up, but in both cases, both of the presentations we are talking about belong on a corporate intranet or partners page, and not the public internet, IMO ...
... but it sure makes for interesting conversation on SI.
Someday when 1xEV-DO and WCDMA are fully commercialized, a neutral party is going to analyze the claims of the combatants. In the interim, I am not buying off on the claims of either party, and I'll continue to watch the order book.
- Eric - |
