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Qualcomm Sheds Light on EV-DO Rev. B

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That is crazy...

icanbeatali

Apr 7, 2006, 10:49 PM
Verizon has already said that they have equipment coming in soon to test Rev A sometime soon. Why would they test the technology that they don't plan to use? Seriously though, Rev A is in the final stages before release, and just because Rev B will be available "sometime" in 2008 doesn't mean that networks will be ready to launch it. Not to mention that there is no way VZW is going to let a year and a half go by that Sprint has a better technology available. VZW will launch Rev A in the early parts of 2007 just like Sprint because of the competition between the two networks for CDMA2000 technologies. Sprint already has 25% of its customers using data plans which is more than any other company, if VZW waited around for Sprint to soak up even ...
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icanbeatali

Apr 7, 2006, 11:03 PM
Let me also add this thought...

Sprint started seriously launching EVDO nationwide not even a year ago. So by time they launch Rev A Sprint only would've had EVDO out for not quite two years. So it seems ignorant to say that they wouldn't spend the money to upgrade in less than 2 years again. They place great importance on being first to market. PLUS, because of the infrastructure in place with CDMA you don't incur a lot of cost in upgrading technologies like you do with GSM, making it possible to invest in the newest and fastest things as they become available. Geez... idiots writing articles... tragic really.
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bigdaddyjay

Apr 8, 2006, 10:40 AM
Idiots? I have a close source telling me that VZW could bypass the launch of RevA, reason? RevB is around the corner and the current take rate of RevO isn't paying the cost of the current upgrade to RevO. Sprint had also said they would launch EV-DV and that ended up being a dead technology. Sprint and VZW would be wise to wait and launch RevB.
Current HSDPA offerrings aren't much better or equal to RevO at this time and it would cost Sprint and VZW over a billion to upgrade their networks to RevA which would be obsolete in a years time. If they make RevB backwards compatible to RevA and RevO and 1XRTT then it might make sense but why be the first to have RevA? There is an uplink advantage to RevO for sure but there aren't enough us...
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sicadastra

Apr 8, 2006, 12:21 PM
VZW Rev A is much closer than you think. That is all.
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eric Lin

Apr 9, 2006, 5:51 PM
was that verizon has made no mention of a Rev. A launch. we previously reported they were testing the technology. but carriers test many technologies and certainly don't launch all of them.

we have no way of proving that verizon will not launch rev. A, but if they haven't started making network upgrades to Rev. A, and Rev. B base station equipment is avialable, it might make more sense to use that and then leapfrog sprint in the 07-08 time frame. since sprint will have just finished their rev A upgrade rollout, they might not go for rev B, waiting instead to start launching something ofdm based in 08
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