"This seems to be another initiative, particularly by Qualcomm, to seed more confusion into 3G," Giere said. "Obviously, there's a concerted attempt to instigate a trade war. That's as dangerous a gamble as you could ever hope to make, and I think it is irresponsible."
Good, they are starting to understand the position they are creating with their absurd SETI attempts to raid Qualcomm's property. After a trade war, there can be a shooting war. The USA is in a good position for that as well. Imagine a few Tomahawks floating up the Champs Elysees to SETI headquarters.
So, let's hear less talk of not needing Qualcomm's property. Let's hear no more of "Qualcomm will not be allowed to stop the industry and 3G CDMA". Let's see them understand that "their fair and democratic organisation" voting on the basis of GSM sales is obviously unfair to Qualcomm's opinion.
They are criminal, thieving, bureacratic, contemptible crooks and as said a few posts ago, their morality will catch up with them. [I'm going to flame Ramsey and 'Chimp' soon too! Jon, your flame was not even a candle. We like to see outright abuse, preferably with no logic or reason to distract.]
They said they considered CDMA before adopting GSM but decided against it because is wasn't as good? What absurdity. CDMA in mobile didn't exist until Qualcomm created it, so they couldn't consider it.
Also Brianh, GSM has been used since 1992 in New Zealand and perhaps earlier elsewhere. cdmaOne was first commercial in Korean in April 1996 [Hong Kong did have a system in Dec 1995 which could be considered the first real one]. So GSM was 4 years ahead of cdmaOne, not two, so to have a sales based voting system in SETI is absurd.
I've been involved in standards setting in the oil industry in Europe. The European bodies are hopeless. They are imbued with the idea that people, countries and continents should be clones of each other. They wanted a 'standard' diesel for all of Europe. As Tero knows, it gets cold in Finland. Waxy diesel freezes. In Spain they want waxy diesel because it has high cetane number and is cheaper. The like standard beer froth and standard cucumber bends. Mostly they like standard, high, standards body salaries.
The same thing applies to mobile phones. In some places, high quality, expensive, high capacity, multimedia systems will be desirable. In others, cheaper legacy GSM systems overlaid with cdmaOne might be fine. Notice how Tero is the only person left on earth who is talking as though GSM has won the race. The rest are all squabbling over which variation of CDMA is to take over.
Globalstar's intrinsic costs are so low, that it will be the 'standard' and the local wireless traffic will be whichever of the multitude of standards suits for day to day traffic in the village. So, a bit like Ramsey says the IMF is irrelevant to economies, SETI might be irrelevant to mobile wireless.
In 5 or 10 years, Globalstar will have 100s of satellites, flying low, including the poles, with handsets so small that they'll be perfectly acceptable, with a price per minute around 10 or 20 cents. People could have a dual mode [or tri mode, dual band] handset which works in their legacy GSM, analog, TDMA or cdmaOne system, with Globalstar for roaming, remote or 3G needs.
No need for a SETI at all. They can be fired and get real jobs.
Standards bodies are usually a pain in the neck, raise prices, stop technology and cost lives.
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