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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio candidates - Moderated
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To: Eric L who wrote (450)12/3/2003 1:37:40 PM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (1) of 2955
 
The only inferiority EDGE has to 1xEV-DO Release 0 is downlink data transmission rates. and that difference is of course sizeable. In that regard IS-856 blows EDGE or WCDMA (without the HSDPA extension) away. To some individuals and particularly corporate business types that could be very important. It creates a big pipe but on the downside it does so at the expense of spectrum that could otherwise be used for voice (and data), and that will limit its adoption.

Speed aside, technically EDGE has some marked advantages over 1xEV-DO Release 0 which offers no QoS, no multitasking of voice and data, and not even the capability to pause a data session to take a voice call then resume the data session, and has very week integration with CDMA2000 and as a consequence must be managed separately

I think you are missing one key aspect in the comparision between EDGE and 1xEV-DO....cost per megabyte. I think that this is the basic advantage that DO is supposed to be able to deliver to the CDMA carriers. It is impossible to get good data on this subject, but the fact that both KDDI and SK Telecom dramatically lowered their data pricing with the deployment of DO would seem indicative of its cost advantages over 1xrtt. This isnt a direct comparision to EDGE, but thus far, EDGE and 1xrtt seem comparable.

Of course, this depends on the carrier. Verizon has never been a company that has pushed pricing to get market share.

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