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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 (19571)	2/25/2002 9:26:06 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197207

That 1.6 Gb file I downloaded a few weeks ago would have cost me $24,000! I think the 1.6Gb files are going to have to stay on the wired networks... I thought that Seybold's suggestion of a cap on file size is a pretty good one. I had been thinking in terms of a cap on the total number of MB's you could download in one month but I think the file size limit might work better. If you are looking to download MP3's and movies, the economics of the wireline are going to beat wireless everytime. By the way, what in the world were you downloading....the unabridged version of all of Maurice's posts? <g> Slacker

To: Kayaker who wrote (19571)	2/25/2002 10:12:58 PM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 197207

These guys have no intention of letting people use up all their voice capacity for data without getting paid. It's part fo the 10 step rehab program for telcom anonymous.<g> What's the point of all the R & D if you are going to have to give the services away free. With AOL, they got a 7 year free ride on technology with no speed enhancements. They still can't deliver a last mile download thru 40kbps dial up services. It would take 3 hours to download a single CD. Not gonna happen. Korea is priced at $1 a MB. Once VZ gets BREW and PCS gets their data services (how are they gonna launch gps services without BREW), the game will intensify. Be patient, this is an 8 year trend as CDMA and GSM networks are all upgraded to 3G by 2010. IMO, we all just got lucky as shit a few years ago with the first Qualcomm surge. We won't have to be as trigger happy this time.