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

To: Kayaker who wrote (18120)	1/14/2002 12:33:28 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197104

I see your point. However, once you start putting 3G phones in your stores (even for 3G voice and 2G data), the buzz will start to flow as people realize the tangible benefits from the higher capacity for 3G voice, i. e. fewer dropped calls, longer standby, and fewer "network is busy" signals on Friday afternoon. There will be a speed increase as PCS build the the IS 95B packet data infrastructure that they never bothered to build until now. This will increase the present 14 kbps data time for wireless modems to 56 kbps - Revision IS 95B. (Ironically, we never got to IS 95B in the US - we only got tri mode phones.) That gives consumers the ability to say, "I don't want my dial up modems anymore. Bye bye, ISP." At this point, people can log directly onto my yahoo! for their home page via their cell phone modem. I will buy one of the new models to replace my wife's Sanyo 4500. Family purchasing power can be spread out over multiple points of the upgrade cycle to leverage the intermediate gains. I'll be waiting to buy the 3G voice and data for myself in June. In the Spring of 2003, I'll be replacing my wife's 3G voice and 2G data phone for the first wave of color screen 3G models. By June, I'll be buying my first 3G Voice and data color screen phone with HDR speeds (2.4 Mbps).