Dave,
Would post the URLs and the articles at the same time if I could figure out how to make the browser do it without having to visit the site twice with the "copy and paste" routine. Alas, as Warren Buffett would say, that is outside my circle of competence. Perhaps MITProfessorEmeritusMikeyTechnoWizardGrandPoobah could instruct me.
Big new networks? Well, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand (thanks to our own Maurice) will soon have new cdmaOne networks. I count about 400 million population in those countries. Add to those the 350 million population covered by networks built in the last 3 years (US, Canada, S.Korea, Hong Kong) and that will give us three quarters of a billion people that will have access to a cdmaOne system. Not a bad start for a technology that will never work<ggg>.
GSM seems to be getting a lot of follow on contracts in China. Whether this is because they got an earlier start on their test systems, I don't know. Some have said this is so. Being cynical about the GSM camp and Chinese officialdom, I just assume they are bribing their way to success. Note - I have no information about this - just a thought that always goes through my head when I hear GSM and China in the same sentence.
SK Tel has been publicly whining about QCOM royalty rates since at least last summer. Sounds like more of the same to me. I'll believe they are "going" with WCDMA when I see them rip out their IS-95 infrastructure and tell all their subscribers to junk their cdmaOne handsets. Yeah, right.
-JLF |
