Qualcomm Reveals Plans for Massive U.S. Mobile Video Network
Yes!!!
No really, it is, and especially cool since Sprint and Verizon will have first dibs on it - I mean, what carriers have any remotely known plans for a WCDMA network here in the USA? w00t!
2. Sprint is going EV-DO nationwide over the next few months, and will probably be nationwide before Verizon.
3. As for Cingular rolling out WCDMA, you're right, I completely forgot that they have it in a few test markets. BUT, the CDMA phone makers on Sprint and Verizon (Sanyo, Samsung, others) use Qualcomm chipsets. Based on that alone I'd say Sprint and Verizon are probably up for this MediaFLO thing first.
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...
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I should clarify:
Qualcomm implied that they will build this into future chipsets, but I might have read too much into that. I can't find where they said that specifically.
Qualcomm did specifically say this will work with 1xRTT networks as well. It doesn't require EV-DO or WCDMA at all. But Qualcomm doesn't make GSM chipsets - that's why that technology is not included.
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