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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 163.32+2.3%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST
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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (15581)9/28/1998 4:47:00 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
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Qualcomm Inc. chairman Irwin Jacobs said customers still have not shown interest in using the 1.5-Mbit burst rates promised for CDMA high-data-rate chips, though applications like Internet access seem a
natural fit.

I am kind of doubtful about the current need for such a high bit rate, especially at the price the service providers would have to charge. People are used to "all you can eat" flat pricing for Internet access, and may just delay bandwidth hogging activities until they get home.

For devices like pdQ, 14.4K speed and packet data connection is all you need. You are pretty much limited to text, and text at 14.4K is not bad. Just count how many bits it takes to transmit this message, and compare it to time it will take to read it.

Joe
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