"Did you forget the 500 word limit per post?"
Ooops!
But I'll quickly take the opportunity to add a few. I agree with you - cdmaOne is all about marketing now. Red, Blue, Baseball Bat or Tiki. Price per minute. Coverage. All that jazz. "Duh, I'll take the red one" will be more to the fore.
I think this is where Tero has lost the plot. He's still fighting the CDMAvsGSM Frezza wars, whereas Frezza left town a year ago, Ericsson is trying to get in the CDMA boat, Nokia is in and the race for market position is on.
He is rightly enamored of Nokia, which has done a brilliant job any way I look at it. They are bound to shift their technical excellence in handsets to cdmaOne and succeed there too. As long as they can use the cheap Estonia labor just over the border.
But they must make the shift. There is a danger that like Tero, they'll lay too much emphasis on GSM because they have had such wild success and miss the transition, which I think will be breathtaking, to cdmaOne and cdma2000.
The good part is that if they do successfully make the shift, Qualcomm wins. If they don't, Qualcomm wins. I'm sure they didn't sign up and develop ASICS over the last decade just for fun, so I bet they'll be there. But it seems that Qualcomm is ahead on the ASICS design with Nokia struggling already = they have only their own handset business whereas the other 25 licensees will buy The Q's. My guess anyway.
Mqurice
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