nokia.com
Check it out here Dave. Doesn't look fake to me!
Of course, this sort of progress is advantageous to QUALCOMM because at present, the civil engineering, permits and all the ancillary junk at cell site towers is the biggest part the cost. With mini systems and no need for complex engineering in CDMA networks if you aren't too worried about efficient siting of base stations, the advantage is all to CDMA. QUALCOMM's cdmaOne just hands the calls off to the next site. You can just pop another one in, and the surrounding cells make room for it. That isn't so simple in a GSM system.
The key to it is cheap electronic gizzards, and these are falling very rapidly. This is all grist to the cdmaOne and cdma2000 mill.
Mqurice
PS: I see Michael P beat me to it with another source.
investor.msn.com
You have to be quick to beat Michael P!
It's interesting to see that Nokia is still missing the main issue on capacity. They said:
"Too much capacity, though, and you are wasting some investment. You need an affordable and flexible way to add capacity. In our view, adding microcells to your existing macrocellular network is the fastest and most cost-effective way to build high capacity particularly in urban hot spots of dense call traffic."
As we all know here, the cheapest way to add capacity, maintain call quality, battery life, low decibel levels in the network, increase profits and keep customers happy is, [well, it does need another trot around the track], p-----g. For newcomers to the thread, as the hot spots get hot, Base Station 'Babe' just increases the charge per minute displayed on the handset for those who choose that p-----g plan. If they accept the busy time high price, they push SEND, and pay the $15 per minute or whatever Babe sets to maintain decibels at an acceptable level. |
