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

To: ggamer who wrote (87163)	10/29/2009 8:43:07 PM
From: engineer	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197246

Not a spectrum problem. It is a tower problem. Adding specturm would only increase it a little. The stuff qualcomm owns is only 6 MHz wide in most areas and this is only ONE HSDPA channel at best. UMTS is 5 MHz wide. The only way to fix it is to microcell down to smaller radius cells and increase the users per square mile. More towers, smaller radius. Here is a quote from Paul... "We are getting to the point in the lab (where) we have done what we know how to do to optimize any given radio wave," Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs said at the CTIA show in San Diego. “Future speed increases will come from operators using a lot more network hardware than in today's networks.” And the femto stuff is still a dream for coverage. fixes one guy in his house. Does not really fix the PROBLEM.