Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elmatador who wrote (3497)	7/29/2001 6:12:18 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Some investment house technology papers that I've read claim that the estimated cost for spectrum to date for anticipated 3G services is in the vicinity of USD 130Billion, and that the anticipated future costs of infrastructure build out that would be needed to support 3G/4G would be near USD 100Billion. All of this money, according to some wireless analysts, has been spent on a technology that for all intents and purposes not only doesn't exist yet, but won't perform as initially expected when it does eventually materialize. As we've discussed in the past, there doesn't appear to be a single 3G or 4G multi-function, web-enabled handset that any manufacturer has held out as their entry for the new high-speed (at or above 2 Mb/s) space. Most accounts that I've read also indicate that battery technology has not kept pace with the equivalent of a Moore Objective for power, and the best batteries today would only last a couple of minutes before discharging at G3/4's rated speeds. These observations are rather incredible, if true. Are they? Corrections welcome.