Qualcomm Reveals Plans for Massive U.S. Mobile Video Network
Yes!!!
THIS IS TEH AW3S0M3!
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!
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!
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Both Cingular has WCDMA/UMTS in several cities already (because ATTWS launched them) and Cingular is launching WCDMA/UMTS as well. Considering that Cingular has the largest network in the US, UMTS will be "ALLOVER". 😉
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You know Verizon and Sprint have no plans what so ever to launch WCDMA. They are instead launching EVDO Over CDMA followed by EVDV.
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ev-dv is being delayed indefinately as of right now. Sprint's considering going the ev-do route.
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1. Of course Sprint is not deploying WCDMA, they're going EV-DO then EV-DV.
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.
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.
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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...
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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 just went back and read the press release again.
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.
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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