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

To: slacker711 who wrote (31177)	1/14/2003 9:47:25 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197068

re: If the source of the problem is the standard, they will go back and change the standard after they get a system up and running. ========== That would be ideal, but it's not the way it works. All the carriers and vendors are working in conformance with formal standard releases. They are using the same test scripts that are developed in 3GPP - the most recent on record is March 2002. They are trying to all get on the same page to resolve cross-vendor incompatibilities. Attempts at "corrections" to problems must remain within the frozen standard parameters. No carrier will venture far afield - as they could be stranded with a better working - though incompatible - network that is politically unacceptable to 3GPP membership. Politics aside, they could have had a well-functioning wideband cdma standard years ago. That's simply not the point. Getting the standard to work is not the singular criteria. It must work within the frozen framework, and retain the IP balance of power. That's the reality of committee based standards development. Like it or not.

To: slacker711 who wrote (31177)	1/14/2003 2:15:05 PM
From: jackmore	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197068

>>...consumers will think that W-CDMA handsets are only six months away.<< MSM 6200 handsets could appear by June. At least that's not completely implausible - Q sampled the chip LAST June. With Q inside, maybe the buggy-standard has a chance of working at some level of performance, say at a 1X level or thereabouts. Euro carriers would suck it up. If it happens, the Koreans would get a big jump on the GSM cabal and could steal the handset show in Asia AND Europe, while Q dominates the WCDMA chip business!! And Dr J's '04 timetable for meaningful WCDMA handset sales could prove to be spot on. But only for Q-powered handsets!! Oh irony, sweet irony.