Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: recycled_electron who wrote (75477)	3/14/2008 10:12:18 AM
From: engineer	Respond to of 196649

yea, they threw PHS out there because it was CHEAP. But it isn't working well at all, and is suffering alot of problems So they are shopping for what to upgrade to.

To: recycled_electron who wrote (75477)	3/14/2008 6:30:05 PM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196649

Isn't China Telecom's PHS on their 450MHz spectrum No. They ran it mainly as PAS, or xiaolingtong, in the 1880-1930 MHz frequency band, with small cells, like a cordless phone setup, in dense city areas, with reception problems, but very cheap. Telecom would have liked to expand CDMA450 beyond the 100,000[?] they have, but were shut down by the gov't, maybe because there were high hopes for SCDMA, maybe because the military brass saw an opening for a rigged investment, or CATT chauvinists wanted the spectrum reserved for a TD-S variant, or maybe because it's a serious bargaining chip with Qualcomm... who knows. There was never a competition between the two technologies since CDMA450's chief selling point for China is big efficient cells for big space, the opposite of whjat they did with PAS. The rational use in China of CDMA450 in the north and west is the main "happy unlikely" thing I was talking about, but meanwhile today we lost some subs in Tibet to shattered skulls.