To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (12882 ) 6/20/2001 6:02:08 PM From: carranza2 Read Replies (2) | Respond to I appreciate the academic dissertation. And I really do get it, more or less. My interest, however, is not academic unless it affects an investment. In that sense, no one has bothered to answer my question:Why, after suggesting that HSCSD fills in GPRS's gaps, did Nokia reduce the speed for HSCSD down to 14 kbps by inserting error correction which it did not previously have, as appears to be the case in the translation from the German Nokia site Eric posted? Is it because, as you and Nokia have stated, errors in the transmission of data are unacceptable? Did the handoff difficulties play a part in the decision? I intuitively suspect that handoff is probably the time at which errors occur most frequently, but what the hell do I know, right? as was originally envisioned for HSCSD , the data rate increases but its reliability decreases. And that, according to you and Nokia, is unacceptable. If unacceptable, how can HSCSD be ethically marketed without error correction to corporate users [buy this! It's fast!] who need error-free data transmission [sell/buy, account numbers, EKG, etc.]?business question that no one has bothered to answer is this: If my understanding that data transfer rates for error-corrected HSCSD are in the 14.4 vicinity, max, is correct, what business case can be made for corporate users to be charged more for a lousy 5 kbps of increased speed? I assume that the higher rates are uncorrected and therefore unacceptable. I haven't yet seen any carrier that offers more than 14.4 kbps speed with error correction. However, I haven't looked at every internet entry for HSCSD, and don't intend to, so correct me if I'm wrong, though I don't think I am. My understanding of the German translation or your barely comprehensible posts might also be faulty. No offense will be taken.really know about the issues that interest me as an investor. So far, I've gotten a lot of irrelevant academic talk, the bare-bones rudiments of which I already had a dim understanding. No one, including Eric, seems to have any answers to my questions [I certainly don't] even though the attitudes taken certainly suggest superior knowledge and wisdom. So, show me the money.
