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

To: Eric L who wrote (62150)	4/7/2007 3:25:24 PM
From: Raymond	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197015

If there where would have been any american customers on the 850 band then GSM would have been in service on that band much much faster than what IS-95 was capable of.How difficult can it be to go from the 900 band to 850? I respect your view but if you think that "american technology" had nothing to do with the choice I think you are wrong. Then when GSM got a chance with the 1900 auctions the americans courts was used to try to stop it.QCOM people went all over US trying to get handicapped people(with hearingaids)to sue any companies that dared to take an european technology.It has been very quiet after that about that GSM is disturbing the hearingdevices in US and other countries. QCOM also had a homepage where anyone interested could compare a IS-95 call and a GSM call regarding the speechquality.The IS-95 call was crystalclear while the GSM call was so disturbed that it was not possible to hear at all what they said. Independent studies has afterwards come to the conclusion that GSM with the EFR coder which was used in the GSM 1900 rollout had a better speech quality than IS-95.Another thing that was always mentioned was the superior battery times when using the IS-95.I think we all know the truth of that statement by now. /R