US TDMA (IS-54/IS-136)
engineer,
<< I like this slide. You can see which company introduce the giant looser in teh US, US TDMA and how much market share they carved out. That system BTW was a VERY poorly designed hurry to market kludge which Nokia thought they could push thru and hook everyone while they figured out how to make it work. >>
I'd like it better if QUALCOMM was better represented share wise as a WCDMA silicon vendor to those shown.
You absolutely correct. IS-54 was indeed VERY poorly designed, and rushed through standardization. It was a mess.
You seem to have the players confused, again, however. It really isn't that hard to tell a Swede fom a Finn, but you seem to be perpetually confused about that.
The FACT of the matter is that Nokia had virtually nothing if anything at all to do with that standardization effort. Ericsson all the way. A few others, but it was Ericsson technology chosen over Motorola's, and Ericsson dominated that abysmal standardization effort.
Nokia did have slightly more to do with IS-136 standardization but it was still a minor effort compared to Ericsson's or Nortel's or AT&T's (Lucent's). Nokia did, after all, never spin their wheels with born analog ANSI-41 based infrastructure. GSM-MAP or evolved GSM-MAP all the way. Once the IS-136 standard was stable, they built handsets to it and put a full court press on in 1999, rocketing past Motorola (and Ericsson). Motorola's downfall was IS-136. They put almost all their digital development eggs in the cdmaOne basket (and later cdma2000). They lost the majority of their gigantic AMPS base to IS-136 and IS-95 and since they weren't involved in cleaning up IS-95 and its real commercialization in Korea in 1996 they sucked hind teat to Samsung and LG and on the Japanese side to Sanyo. Wam, Bam, Thank you ma'am. Out for the count almost overnight. This a company that once had 50% global share in handsets.
Of course what Nokia had a lot to do with was the standardization and commercialization of GSM-850 and EDGE, and of course UMTS (WCDMA) and as a consequence the LA TDMA operators and some of the CDMA operators flipped almost en mass to GSM and will migrate to 3G with WCDMA. As another consequence GSM is today the dominant technology in the Western Hemisphere, just as it is on a global basis, and CDMA is slowly becoming Toast.
<< Perhaps if they just com0pete and not litigate their way to stay in the market, they just might retain the market. >>
Best you look at the comparative financials of the major players in Mobile Wireless, and start top down with the two largest (top line, profit) -- i.e. Nokia and Ericsson. They seem to be competing very well on developed competencies.
Highly likely they stay in the market, regardless of how litigation flops.
<< They did much the same with WCDMA, but this time, they forgot that others would make hte chipsets. >>
Lots of others. Just like GSM. The only technology with a single source of silicon supply is CDMA. That's just one of many reasons that the technology share of CDMA is declining by any metric you choose.
That single source of silicon supply sure has Verizon's and Sextel's pants in a twist in the face of the ITC Broaqdcom action.
Is it any wonder Verizon has stated they may migrate to 3GPP LTE instead of QUALCOMM's 3GPP2 UMB. Don't for a minute think that Sextel is not considering the same migration path.
Cheers,
- Eric - |
