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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wlheatmoon who wrote (49772)	8/22/2000 5:23:43 PM
From: CRay33	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 63513

The standards war is primarily politically driven. GSM is European, CDMA is American. Another issue is the cost of transitioning to a new standard. With respect to usage, consider the I-phone in Japan. It has internet capability, but they could only offer something like 10000 of them since it limited out their network. It was fabulously popular, but people couldn't get one. Actually, GSM is headed to WCDMA (3g) in Europe, and the data technology is called GPRS. I agree the chart looks terrible for QCOM - and sometimes momentum and perception is a better decision criteria than fundamental technology - but I'm staying long here.