Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter J Hudson who wrote (3824)	3/23/2000 4:08:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

"By the way, what is the best wireless mobile data solution commercially available today?" A very good question. Based on the volume of mobile data traffic and revenue generated by mobile data, the most succesful solution by far is the plain old GSM-900 with the measly 9,6 kbps data transfer speed. A measure of this success? The staggering 3 billion text messages generated in GSM networks during the month of December 1999. Many European mobile operators are already seeing more than 10% of their revenue generated by mobile data. That would be about ten times higher than the proportion of revenue the average US CDMA operator generates from offering non-voice solutions. We can only guess at the explosion the packet-switched GPRS data transfer speed of even 40 kbps will trigger. The hardest part - coaxing consumers to adopt the use of mobile data features into their everyday lives - has already been accomplished by the savviest operators like Omnitel and Mannesmann. Tero

To: Peter J Hudson who wrote (3824)	3/23/2000 4:18:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Peter, He tried the same responses to Gregg Powers, and we all know those results. Ruff

To: Peter J Hudson who wrote (3824)	3/23/2000 4:35:00 PM
From: Terrapin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Hi Peter, "By the way, what is the best wireless mobile data solution commercially available today?" I think you need to define what you mean by "best". Volume of messages? Data transfer rates? Least expensive to deploy? Most options for upgrades? Each definition may yield a different answer. If you do not specify what you meant the discussion will inevitably devolve to bickering over terms. "Mines the best!" "No! Mines the best!" That kind of stuff. Great idea Clean! I'm racking up the pennies! <G> Terrapin

To: Peter J Hudson who wrote (3824)	3/23/2000 10:56:00 PM
From: Allen	Respond to of 34857

It's a good thing I don't know more than I do, 'cause then I couldn't speculate. I can understand your not trying to evaluate "1XTREME" since it is pure hype at this point. MOT says we're gonna do it and NOK says we support it. HDR on the other hand was announced and demonstrated months ago. Now which one is hype? It's easy to demonstrate a product. It's another to standardize and deliver it. To the best of my knowledge no standards body has yet defined an HDR standard. It's most significant that the TIA has not, since the TIA was the first body to standardize CDMA. Presumably Qualcomm is working with the TIA to get HDR standardized. They'll need to if they expect significant market penetration, since service providers will be reluctant to deploy a non-standard technology (a major factor in the original IS-95 standard). Until there's a standard, and even better a product, both HDR and 1XTREME must be considered rather ephemeral. On the other hand Qualcomm has been talking about HDR for nearly two years and 1EXTREME was only recently announced. So I'd have to say that time alone has given more hype to HDR.