EV-DO Rev. A Reaches Milestone with Chipset Sampling
What does this mean for verizon?
by the way nextel/spritn could always chose flarion or wimax and that will destroy umts/hsdpa and REV O.
not a problem.
I don't see a huge consumer level demand for high-speed data -- and neither do the parents of kids who get hundreds upon hundreds of dollars of data charges.
Rev 0 and soon A are here now. I know Cingular signed that billion dollar contract with Lucent for the network, but alot of that is going to be used for further network consolidation. If UMTS/HSPDA is in the top 20 markets by the beginning of the 3rd Quarter 06 I...
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really, i didnt know that.
"I don't see a huge consumer level demand for high-speed data -- and neither do the parents of kids who get hundreds upon hundreds of dollars of data charges."
i do, becuase if its wireless it would be easier.
"Rev 0 and soon A are here now. I know Cingular signed that billion dollar contract with Lucent for the network, but alot of that is going to be used for further network consolidat...
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To answer your other statement. If everyone wants wireless data, then why is data less than 5% of revenues across the industry?
The only people who really care that much about it is the geeks like us on these forums.
flarion, in my opinion, would be out by 2005-2006 maybe 2007.
wimax will be out in 2006-2008.
regardless it will be interesting
since we only have 300 million people in the usa, it will be about arpu and churn and data arpu.
When I worked for Cingular I'd say only about 1 in 15 actually had a data plan. They all used it until they saw how much it raised their bill and then they dropped it.
anyway about cingular.. this is from 2004.
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=28749 »
from 2004
Cingular, which recently acquired AT&T Wireless (NYSE: AWE) , will leverage the airwaves it gained in the transaction to deliver high-speed, 3G connectivity. The new network promises average data transmission rates of 400-700 kilobits per second (Kbps), the company said.
Advanced services will be offered to Cingular's regional and rural roaming partners, while enabling those carriers to deploy UMTS services on their networks. Most major markets will have access to the network by the end of 2006.
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from what i read, no, but i am not 100 percent sure. i know for a fact sprint does. when i looked at sprint's press release about it and verizon's i didnt see any wording in vzw's that said possible upgrade and including upgrade option for REV A and for DV etc. like i saw for sprint.
"That would mean their responisibilty would be for testing new phones and chipsets. I think VZW is smart for holding back... I think the only true demand for Rev A is going to be wireless NIC's, Smart Phones, and Blackberry's. Once the demand is there, then roll it out."
well, they would trust qualcomm. if they trust qualcomm to do REV O, they should trust them to do REV...
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml ... »
Specifically, the chips are designed for 1xEV-DO Revision A systems. Rev A is a follow-on to 1xEV-DO service that a number of wireless operators-- Verizon and Sprint in the U.S.-- have been rolling out. That current service provides typical speeds of between 300 Kbps and 400 Kbps. Verizon has said it expects to start field tests of 1xEV-DO Rev A in late 2006.
While EV-DO is based on CDMA technology, GSM-based operators have been rolling out UMTS service now and will upgrade to HSDPA, which will support speeds similar to those promised by Rev A. In the U.S., Cingular has said it will start rolling out HSDPA next year, although u...
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