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To: techlvr who wrote (118566)	5/11/2002 3:31:12 AM
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You know, I was trying to explain all this WCDMA stuff and 5% royalty stuff to my wife tonight, when it hit me what Nokia is trying to do. By delaying WCDMA due to the handoff problem and the increased number of cell sites needed, they are pushing real hard on GPRS over GSM. Now one says "this does not make sense because if they really run up the users on GPRS, it overloads the GSM system" and will make the carriers have to invest in more BTS to get the needed capacity, but by having a service they can roll out now on GPRS at low cell density which works and then create a demand, they can get teh carriers to invest in more cell towers to gain GPRS capacity. but what they do in the end is to actually add the cell sites they need for WCDMA to work. Very clever way to trick the carriers into buying into a bad systems design in the first place. (And for the raving guy on the NOK thread.....the single mode Qualcomm chip is a "hey it works, try it and see for yourself that WCDMA has a handoff problem" solution for the handset guys to use. they cannot say that there is no working chip and pass off that they cannot make handsets becuase the chips just have not been built yet. It is a call your bluff, and it does not need data to show it up. It will fail in voice handoffs, as teh standard will not support the handoffs with the number of BTS out there today. It will NOT fail in data mode, however as the TCP/IP can handle dropped calls very well. but since VOICE is the main revenue generator of the carriers, that is all that is needed to show the fatal flaw in systems design. NOK is waiting for a few other things to happen to get their stuff out there. More BTS and more processing gain thru higher power DSP chips. In any case, they have far more COST and far more power than CDMA1x.......)

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