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

To: S100 who wrote (2447)	12/27/2000 12:08:07 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

<"We don't want our customers to be guinea pigs," says Tapio Hedman, a Nokia spokesman. "GPRS will have a more profound impact toward the latter part of 2001." Nokia's caution is striking, given that the Finnish giant was the first phone maker to release a wireless Internet phone at the end of 1999. However, Motorola maintains GPRS is mature and stable. > I'd believe Nokia before Motorola. Motorola seems to have a history of asserting things are ready, then sorting out the bugs while the customers use the system - it gives great real-time, loaded, field experience but isn't so conducive for customer happiness. The Motorola CDMA network in Hong Kong, the first commercial network in the world, was saved by QUALCOMM having handsets ready when Motorola couldn't deliver. GPRS sounds like a real lemon. It was a great idea to get GSM operators and CDMA prospects to install GSM with a view to a smooth upgrade path. "Sorry chaps. We thought we'd be able to make it work but stick with GSM for another year or two and we'll be right. Then we'll put you on the Bleeding EDGE, which will be even better." It seems that there's one born every minute. One more round of upgrades was no doubt a great marketing idea, but in the real world, customers have to like it and for that to happen, it has to work, be economic etc [Globalstar has gone wrong on 'what a great idea' too, so it's an easy disease to catch - at least Globalstar works, even if few can afford it]. Mqurice PS: Incidentally, I was impressed by the Nokia line up of people in the Webcast. The struggle to answer the CDMA royalties question was a bit funny. 'Watch this space' was about all they could come up with; the suggestion being that agreement would be a matter of course and perhaps imminent. There was a conciliatory tone to the comments.