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To: limtex who wrote (60713)	3/2/2007 9:37:49 PM
From: BDAZZ	Respond to of 196989

>>HSDPA flavour of 3.5G is fast becoming yesterday's man << Hardly "fast" becoming. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Speed in wireless will be like speed in PC's. There is a "fast enough for awhile" saturation point. I used to upgrade PC's every so often to make my apps run faster. It was worth it to have an app that ran in 10 minutes, run in 3 minutes. But there did come a point where I was not interested in making the extra investment to get a 5 second app to run in 2 seconds. HSDPA and its upgrades will carry us for a good while until the complexity and bulk of the apps dictates the need for faster.

To: limtex who wrote (60713)	3/2/2007 10:06:53 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196989

let me ask you. You tell me what the timeline is. GSM started in 1987 or so and got into a standard in 1992, it took off and rolled out in 1993,4,5. WCDMA got started as a standard in 1997 and finally got into a real locked down standard in 2001 or maybe 2002. IMJ stood up and said that year (2003) that WCDMA would be late and not work that wel for 3-4 more years. Here it is and widspread rollout is in 2007. So LTE started in 2004. My expectation is that it will not be a real standard until 2010 or 2011. So when do you think it will roll out in any volume now that Qualcomm is in both camps and on both side of the CDMA (W and 2000) walls? Just how much BS will everyone else work on to screw with the LTE standard and how long so that they ca claim this is ONLY LTE (not to be confused with 4G) in this or that spectrum band? HINT: LTE is an even bigger political IP free for all and far more complex and intricate in how the standards are being worked on.