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To: engineer who wrote (118557)	5/10/2002 9:24:07 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Everyone is selling the hell out of GPRS and all the VC money is going to the GPRS camp, not the WCDMA camp. Most of what you wrote seems to describe problems with the technology that would happen regardless of the comittment of the vendors to the technology. If I remember correctly, you wrote a post where you indicated that it would take years after the initial implementation of W-CDMA for a true "commercial" system to be up and running. It seems like we are going through that process right now. Setting aside Nokia....why would Ericsson, NEC, Docomo, LU, Siemens, Samsung, or any of the other major wireless players delay W-CDMA? They all will make far more from W-CDMA than they will from an extension of GSM/GPRS. Nokia is the only one that might benefit from a delay (I dont think so, but a case could be made). The rest of them clearly need W-CDMA to roll-out....the sooner the better. Slacker

To: engineer who wrote (118557)	5/10/2002 9:48:07 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Everyone is selling the hell out of GPRS and all the VC money is going to the GPRS camp, not the WCDMA camp Assuming that GPRS is established for a long time in place of WCDMA, then we can expect slow speeds as the networks become more than ghost towns. How can this be good for the GSM bunch? What can be done at 25 kbps without driving the user nuts? I guess it means that networks like Sprint and Verizon will slaughter VoiceStream and AWS. The Euros will end up with crappy data transfer. Perhaps the carriers that have a choice might reverse their WCDMA pick. Things look good.