Michael - English language is kind of tough... it took me ten years to learn it. But it's not that tough. When I say that Nokia can squeeze more out of GSM networks than CDMA manufacturers can squeeze out of their systems I mean just that. If you had bothered to read the next sentence in my original post you would have seen the first sentence in its proper context. The context was end user applications. You see, most consumers don't buy base stations (even though Nokia's new ones look tempting).
I have never claimed that current GSM gives more capacity than CDMA. I have claimed that GSM is going to experience a huge capacity boost next year, that CDMA can't offer better data rates in current products and that Nokia can get more out of GSM than Qualcomm can get out of CDMA. You see, the theorethical optimal performance of a standard has little do with the real life applications.
Here is some info:
The next "somewhere else" that HSCSD is sign-posting, at least in the Nokia GSM universe, is the general packet radio service (GPRS), capable of at least 170 kb/s and due for release next year. Juha Lipiainen, Nokia's IP Networking product market and management activity head, cites among the advantages of GPRS: instant mobile
Internet protocol access with no call setup waiting time; true end-to-end IP; and a better value proposition, with users paying for data volume instead of session connection time. He even suggests the much vaunted third-generation digital mobile proposal based on wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) is just an incremental access improvement on GPRS.
GSM can deliver moving video next year. Here's something about the capacity issue:
Our new Nokia MetroSite capacity solution enables you to build ten fold capacity increase compared to conventional macrocellular networks. And this can be achieved at half the cost. With Nokia MetroSite, you can now achieve more than 1,000 Erlangs per km2 to eliminate those capacity bottlenecks.
Nokia MetroSite uses the 58GHz band, which allows high re-use of the same frequency, to give very high capacity. Also you don't need to apply for a frequency channel for a particular hop. Because the frequency is self-regulating the costs and delays associated with installing fixed line systems and traditional cellular systems are eliminated.
All of which saves you time and money. Once the equipment is installed, you can have access almost straight away.. No more delays caused by frequency licence applications or waiting for leased line connections and the capital you have invested in base stations is being fully utilised.
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And about handsets... the Koreans just made a huge CDMA handset order to Motorola. The Koreans hate Qualcomm and are suing them for megabucks to slash Qualcomm's licensing income. They are now giving Motorola CDMA phones a huge boost just to spite Qualcomm. Damn it, did you have to alienate the Koreans so badly that they now throw business to Mot?
If you think that the current websites don't need smartphone optimization you have another think coming. You need a low-resolution, minimal-graphic environment with certain width of text to fit the screen snugly. I know... I've surfed with Nokia 9000 and it's tough if the site does not have a smartphone option. But if the site has an option tailored for Nokia 9000 it's pretty good. And I don't think the Palm applications can rival the applications designed all over the world, by all kinds of companies, for the dominant smartphone OS. Palm may control the PDA market... but this is not the same as smartphone market. The smartphone OS needs to tie up internet, e-mail, fax, conference calling, optimal standby time (in which area pdQ has already failed). And Palm is not big in Europe. I suspect most international companies prefer an international smartphone standard.
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