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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6927)	2/3/2001 8:59:21 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196535

mQ, << hasn't Sprint got 1xRTT loaded into their system now and now selling and doing very well? >> 1xRTT on a test switch, Selling IS-95A and doing fine. With 1xRTT they are today where SKT was last February with W-CDMA. << I don't get it. I thought A GSM phone wouldn't work on a W-CDMA network >> A GSM phone will work on a W-CDMA network for voice and current GSM circuit switched data services ... provided that network has circuit switched GSM data services ... the Japanese and Korean ones won't, so voice only. << Maybe you mean multichip phones or multimode >> No. Thats for W-CDMA phones that need to work in all of GSM and GPRS land while the buildout of W-CDMA occurs. W-CDMA UTRANS start out as little islands in a see of GSM GPRS base stations and then eventually spread to the suburbs, then to rural areas, then to the hinterlands, then Globalstar takes over. UMTS standards account for the satellite as well as terrestrial side and that is why Globalstar will have its place in the sun. << As ASIC, radioOne and other technologies develop, the cost of compatibility will go down and single devices might well work in a wide range of situations without undue cost >> Right. radioOne, Nokia Smart radio all that good future stuff. << But for now, multimode costs a lot >> No, Most of the new GPRS handsets are coming out multibamd (all 3) so they work in 161 countries on GSM and GPRS. Add a band for W-CDMA, and some soft stuff for regional variations. If its a singe chip solution - and thats what the R&D guys have been spending their time on - not much added cost. Some stuff gets off loaded to the SIM for the regional variants. The same legacy problem exists in CDMA land and TDMA land ... only its worse. Our legacy is AMPS. That's why Verizon is committed to get rid of all AMPS by 2004. AWS has a more difficult task than Verizons and Cingulars is really bizarre. You might wonder why I use Verizon instead of Sprint PCS. It is because of coverage and Verizon's coverage advantage over Sprint is AMPS. Its a 2 edged sword. << and the compatibility problem is that old handsets won't work on new networks. >> The old handsets work with the new networks. Thats the standardization effort QUALCOMM and CDG didn't make up front, but they are into it now because of OHG. << Noo Yawk was 5 times the NextWave price >> Spectrum is priceless. Verizon is smart. The Apple is the biggest market in the world. Yamakita might argue that but the Apple is it. << : I also thought I could retire now and you could take over the ranting - your style was familiar too! Plagiarism! >> Naw ... I'm practicing to be your ghost writer. I have a way to go. Eventually we'll be ubiquitous ... like CDMA <g> - eQ -