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

To: unrealistic_thoughts who wrote (48502)	11/7/2005 5:37:08 AM
From: 100cfm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196535

(a) A scheme for reuse of almost 1, and (b) A technique to improve the performance and link budget of edge users during handoff. sB Could you translate that for us non techies. And since Q has bought Flarion, does not OFDM meet your performance criteria for the above?

To: unrealistic_thoughts who wrote (48502)	11/7/2005 12:59:13 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196535

Elegant, simply elegant ... Mr. Builder, << Speak up or shut up. >> All right, I will. << I think you are way off base in your contention that Qualcomm didn't do much to invent cellular CDMA. >> My statement, in the post of mine, that you responded to, should you care to read it again, says ... This much is accurate ... Qualcomm invented and pioneered the use of CDMA in a commercial cellular system ... << ... the very first implementation of soft handoff and combining almost killed Qualcomm in its early days. >> Those issues were overcome in reasonable time frames and today the particular implementations of cdma and cdm/tdm technology applied to a mobile wireless environment that QUALCOMM commercialized with the assistance of their value chain accounts for ~14% of the worlds subscribers, about 20% of the worlds handset unit sell-in, and on the order of 20% or so of the combimed revenue produced from mobile wireless infra, mobile devices, and components for and software related to infra and devices. Depending on whether or not your glass is half empty or half-full that can either be viewed as relatively poor technology adoption or a thriving mass market. I prefer the latter, but wish that technology adoption by carriers in this decade had been more favorable to the ecosystem that QUALCOMM undisputably controls, and expanded it more than it has. << There just aint many other wireless technologies in the universe with substantial, provably good methods to improve reuse and edge-user performane. I'd challenge you to name just a single one. Speak up or shut up. >> GSM Phase 2+ through its various releases R'96 through R'5 (with enhancements in R'6 through R'8 in progress) and 3GSM UMTS and its UTRA access modes from R'99 forward. - Eric -