Qualcomm Reveals Plans for Massive U.S. Mobile Video Network
Replying to: Yes!!! by Invader J
Say what now?
Actually, Cingular has announced its intent to aggressively deploy WCDMA nationwide starting next year. They already have it launched in six cities (via AT&T Wireless, now part of Cingular).
And this actually doesn't have that much to do with WCDMA or EV-DO. It's a separate technology that works in separate spectrum. It will work with those techs, but it's technically not dependent on them.
Qualcomm will be putting this FLO technology in future chipsets. It just happens that by the time those future chipsets are released, practically all Qualcomm chipsets will be EV-DO and/or WCDMA. 1xRTT-only chips will be a much smaller percentage of Qualcomm's output by then.
That's the only reason those two techs were mentioned - it's just where the various technologies fall on Qualcomm's chipset roadmap.
Sorry for the confusion.
So no one will have "first dibs" on this...
And this actually doesn't have that much to do with WCDMA or EV-DO. It's a separate technology that works in separate spectrum. It will work with those techs, but it's technically not dependent on them.
Qualcomm will be putting this FLO technology in future chipsets. It just happens that by the time those future chipsets are released, practically all Qualcomm chipsets will be EV-DO and/or WCDMA. 1xRTT-only chips will be a much smaller percentage of Qualcomm's output by then.
That's the only reason those two techs were mentioned - it's just where the various technologies fall on Qualcomm's chipset roadmap.
Sorry for the confusion.
So no one will have "first dibs" on this...
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