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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MileHigh who wrote (1384)	1/10/2000 11:10:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12232

<...what will be the first sign in your opinion that the walls of the fortress are beginning to crumble and fall CDMA's way?> When a test of CDMA as an overlay of GSM is carried out! No, that's been done. Umm, how about when ETSI, decides that CDMA should be the basis for UMTS [3G WWeb systems]? Oops, no that's been underway for years now too [since L M Ericsson invented CDMA back in 1890]. Okay, how about when L M Ericsson finally agrees that they DIDN'T invent CDMA but Qualcomm did? No, that was last year. Europe is surrounded by CDMA and they are running out of time and spectrum. The rest of the world is rapidly going CDMA [though as Tero would point out, GSM is hugely ahead in many places]. I suspect the first next sign will be tomorrow when Vodafone makes the big announcement. Keep in mind that it was only 2 years ago that some people, such as Mr Bill Frezza, whose body is hereby brought out for his first ritual flogging of Y2K, thought that, CDMA would be a niche technology. It was only 3 years ago that he was claiming that CDMA was a fraud, the Sprint launch was a bumbling exaggeration doomed to failure etc etc, blah, blah, blah. Talk of fortress Europe changing to CDMA was a weird joke to him and Tero. Now people are just asking when it is going to happen. Tero valiantly claims that GPRS is all people will need for WWeb. Imagine WWeb surfers paying big bucks to download still images a bit at a time while the rest of us download live images, via Babe [TM], of Pamela Anderson scoring a Homer at Qualcomm Stadium for a cent or two. Or is it Mark McGiver who scores the record-breaking Homers? Mqurice PS: Complete convergence of VW40 [alias W-CDMA] and cdma2000, or acceptance of some final clone by the ITU and ETSI would be another market. Vodafone and others will be pushing convergence as hard as they can go. They don't want multiple standards with no benefits and expensive VW40 IP. [Intellectual Property, not Internet Protocol].