To: slacker711 who wrote (3153 ) 11/10/1999 4:11:00 PM From: Maurice Winn Respond to
<The DS sequence mode is expected to offer a chip rate of 3.84 Mchips/s while supporting asynchronous and synchronous operation > There goes the synchronisation component of W-CDMA. Victory after victory. No wonder the stock price is roaring. The cdma2000 clone [W-CDMA] now has a very close chip rate [close enough that W-CDMA handsets will only have an unpleasant level of warble and cost just a bit more than cdma2000 handsets which will run perfectly. Will Q! make cdma2000 ASICs with no W-CDMA operation as well as multimode ASICs? I guess so since they would be better: faster, less power draining, smaller and cheaper, giving better quality voice and faster WWeb access. The Clone has any real benefit over cdma2000 and Ericy CDMA division [in Lusk Boulevard old HQ!] are saying: "We're taking the approach of looking at both W-CDMA and CDMA2000 and trying to avoid doing two separate product designs," it seems that Ericy is figuring out that they better make their clone near identical apart from a couple of racing stripes or bells and whistles. They better make sure they have an unimpeded technology trajectory to wind the chip rate down to the real one or they'll find their handsets don't sell as people go for efficient ones without warble. [Okay, I admit I have no idea whether they'll get warble because of weird chip rates and multi synch, but they are NOT going to get away with it scot-free.]When will the first 3G services rollout? Most industry members agree that Japan will be the first market to rollout 3G services. > You bet it will be in Japan first! NTT is being eaten alive and they are depending on an obsolete technology which will collapse in popularity when cdmaOne hits its stride and especially if HDR starts rolling out in their competitor networks.
