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

To: limtex who wrote (24599)	7/13/2002 8:30:04 AM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197227

limtex,-- what a farce. too true--thanks for the characterization I doubt the integrity and viability of the EDGE backwoods commercial rollout, bwdik. The technical perspectives on this thread have been accurate for years, and specifically cite aspects of EDGE which render it a poor commercial competitor, but why would that stop suffering Nortel from selling them what they want? Cingular plans to have an all-GSM national network within a couple of years. Moving that to 3G, along with the AWE and Voicestream resources, must be a very different ballgame. 2007-8? How many more $billions? They seem to have bet against wireless data, choosing to compete for voice over the period of time it takes to pay for the new 2G network. Maybe that strategy depended upon heavy vendor financing, or big support from DoCoMo and Europe, but things have changed. EDGE may just get to "see the light of day", but it seems to need a lot of time and money, along with the failure of 1x to manage the pricing it takes to get the customers.