Qualcomm Sheds Light on EV-DO Rev. B
That is crazy...
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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.
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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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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