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

To: Ken S. who wrote (7520)	2/19/2001 10:55:30 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197253

Ken, I was being a bit liberal with the synchronized, unsynchronized comment. The precise terms are synchronous and asynchronous. A kind of joke [being smart-alecky with the use of words the way the GSM Guild calls W-CDMA 'GSM']. As far as I know, QUALCOMM prefers the synchronous and uses that for cdma2000, but I think that W-CDMA would always be asynchronous, whether produced by QUALCOMM or the Hagfish types. I'd need a registered technical nerd to give me the real oil on that. The W-CDMA people claim that the asynchronous method makes it easier to provide coverage as part of a network in out of the way places such as underground carparks. I don't know how true that is. From what the technical aces said a couple or three years ago, the turbo coding of cdma2000 is better than the convoluted concatenated method of W-CDMA [but again, I was mostly making fun of the W-CDMA because of the words, which make it sound convoluted and confusing...]. While the HDR business is a boon for cdma2000, I think the actual advantages were more to do with the management of voice. A better chip rate. Better spectrum management and things like that. Optimized for 1.25MHz. Backward compatible. A one-stop shop for the technology. Cheaper royalty component. Earlier to market. EricL gave a list of marketing advantages for the GSM Guild, [GG], but there are no technical merits for W-CDMA over cdma2000 as far as I know, but there are many advantages of cdma2000 over W-CDMA. Anyway, I have to go and catch a plane to San Diego. There's a meeting in a week! Mqurice