Alltel Begins EV-DO Rollout
Cingular In Trouble
That means verizon, alltel, and sprint will whip cingular on data thus helping them steal voice customers from cingular as well.
The safe/low risk path (GSM to UMTS) is screwing cingular/att in this case.
I'm not sure I can make the connection there.
viper said:Care to give us a link where we can read up on the subject. I'm aware that CDMA has a leg up in this country in regards to data...but a hardware shortage in regards to HSPDA? That I hadn't heard.
Docomo's HSDPA is delayed and it seems likely that cingular will be unable to have hsdpa up and running with adequate supply of handsets and/or data cards until late 2006.
That means verizon, alltel, and sprint will whip cingular on data thus helping them steal voice customers from cingular as well.
The safe/low risk path (GSM to UMTS) is screwing cingular/att in this case.
I seriously doubt cingular will have much hsdpa ready wcdma infrastructure up before 2007. it is pretty much april 2005 after all. WCDMA is not an easy upgrade from GSM.
I would not expect much volume on hsdpa user devices until 2007 either. I am basing that upon the track record of GSM.
It took several years after launch to establish a strong supply of GPRS devices and the same is evident with EDGE and WCDMA. I doubt HSDPA will be any different though they might have enough pcmcia cards for corporate customers in 2006 even if ...
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Docomo announced recently that it will delay HSDPA. Cingular's supppliers may or may not be on target for 2006 but docomo's delay does suggest that hsdpa might be a litter trickier than many first thought.
I seriously doubt cingular will have much hsdpa ready wcdma infrastructure up before 2007. it is pretty much april 2005 after all. WCDMA is not an easy upgrade from GSM.
I would not expect much volume on hsdpa user devices until 2007 either. I am basing that upon the track record of GSM.
It took several years after launch to establish a strong supply of GPRS devices and the same is evident with EDGE and WCDMA. I doubt HSDPA will be any different though they might have enough pcmcia cards for corp
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