If that's the way you see it... Ok.
WCDMAOne could not have been presented to ETSI as Qcom is not European. I thought that was obvious. Others may have been able to participate through European Subsidiaries, but was it entirely worth Qcom to buy one just for ETSI?
"Im afraid that Qcom has lost now." I sure hope you aren't making stock decisions with that kind of delusion.
You still don't understand that IS95c doesn't require new FCC licenses or frequencies or antennas or cellsites or subscriber units. If you want to surf the internet while driving down I5, buy your own IS95C box, I just want to make a phone call.
As far as I am concerned, I have IS95C working this minute. I don't need it. But, it's availability will have ZERO affect on me. If my provider adds antenna sectors to improve capacity, I don't care. It just won't have any effect on my desire to make a phone call. Nothing else can make that claim. Especially anything from Europe.
So, I guess that since you work for a GSM tree-hugging company here in SD, you have a working WCDMA phone now? Hmmm... So, when will you have one working? Haven't started the Asics yet? Better get started. If today's IS95 asics are any indication, you won't SEE a working phone for two years. Qcom is on at least its fourth or fifth generation. Battery life improves with every one. Tero should be pleased.
Qcom's Vodaphone project works NOW. (We just don't know if Qcom is going to press forward with the project.)
The only thing that changed this week is ETSI's members, including Ericy see an opportunity to maliciously "earn" a license from Qcom after Qcom spent millions to develop and prove that it works in the first place. Then, spend millions more as Ericy believes itself invented CDMA in the first place. How can you defend that kind of lunacy?
"Fight everything in court." Don't stick your head in the sand. The only suit Qcom has filed is to defend itself against a company that ignores the fact that all laptop computers use the clamshell design, along with Ericy's and Nokia's PDA.
About your drawn out diatribe re: WCDMA in the US. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. IS95 works well enough to attract paying voice customers to fund the absurdly expensive FCC license. Try that with your European WCDMA. |
