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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22147)12/28/2007 9:24:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 217820
 
TJ, it seems that TD-SCDMA is doomed even before it is born. Tero Kuittinen, our old SI buddy from 1996, has written a good article. Message 24167617

TD-SCDMA doesn't have a hope in hell. It looks as though it's Game Over, bar the shouting.

China should quit wasting time, acting like Albania and North Korea, and join up with QUALCOMM to produce OFDM along Flarion lines.

With 450MHz OFDM with multiband CDMA2000 EV-DO/Wi-Fi modes optional and maybe even W-CDMA/HSDPA built in too, China could leverage a huge national mobile cyberspace market into global dominance. Lacking imagination and being more interested in building Great Walls of China [walls are embedded in Chinese psyche it seems], they won't do that, so will go on to repeat history by being cheap labour for the people who do the creative stuff and earn the real money.

Unless ... maybe some thoughtful youngish bloke who can see the writing on the wall will warn them of the error of their ways before it is too late and guide them onto the way to great prosperity and advancement.

TD-SCDMA is toast. W-CDMA is a 12% royalty rort for the European cartel. OFDM450MHz is a cheap and cheerful but highly efficient technology [much better than the slow bit/hertz/second rate of the W-CDMA realm]. I bet QUALCOMM would agree to a 2% royalty in China for OFDM-based technology, as they did for CDMA2000.

Paying a fortune to European carteliers for an inefficient W-CDMA system is silly when something much better is available, much cheaper.

Go on, do something useful in life! Making money from buying sheep and selling deer is useful for personal expenditure, but the big game is elsewhere.

Mqurice
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