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

To: DaveMG who wrote (1636)	4/17/2000 1:37:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12240

Dave, I don't believe everyone is scared of GPS. Sure, China might prefer not to use it, but that's what's available and the world is so globalized that everyone is mutually trade dependent to a huge extent anyway. Take away China's exports and they'll soon look sad. Sometimes I don't believe what I'm writing and I admit it's hard to tell the difference [at times...]. Probably I shouldn't do that. But I'm serious that W-CDMA seems silly. Q! doesn't just go with the flow because they want and always said so, backward compatibility with cdmaOne. The GSM people do NOT want cdmaOne backward compatibility, because that will give cdmaOne operators a big advantage. However, the two are being screwed together by the likes of Vodafone. I doubt that QUALCOMM is disadvantaged on W-CDMA and Ericsson is working with Q! to get it right. Ericy surely hopes to come out king and they know they need all the help they can get to do so. W-CDMA isn't optimized to interact with the GSM core any more than cdma2000 would be optimized to interact with the GSM core. Both will work with it. That's what the Newbury GSM overlay trials were about a couple of years ago. But in the cdmaOne environment, cdma2000 would just slot nicely in. W-CDMA would not [unless they remove more differences]. There are 60m cdmaOne subscribers and before 3G is rolling out, there will be over 200m. Why cause them problems? It isn't as though GSM subscribers will be disadvantaged - they are on incompatible networks anyway, up a blind alley. Nokia has been on CDMA since 1990 and it really does show me how good QUALCOMM is that they can stay ahead of Nokia despite the huge Nokia budgets. Tero thought Nokia would just roar into CDMA and come out on top, using their huge GSM cashflows. Not so far! Nokia was an early CDMA licensee, so they have now had a decade to get it right. Why don't Nokia, NTT and others just go with the flow? We know why ... it's called dog-in-manger marketing. Mqurice