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guanxi
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 Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject: 3G vendor plans, per Jan. Wall St Journal article |
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The article is from January but has useful tidbits. Subscription required:
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110556532737524446,00.html
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Verizon Wireless ... says it expects to double the area of its 3G coverage by the end of this year. So far, the company says, roughly 70,000 people have signed up for the service ...
Verizon Wireless plans to introduce software and another laptop card to provide access while a user is overseas [in GSM networks] ... The carrier is also exploring a single card that would use both EV-DO and [UMTS for GSM networks] ....
[Sprint]plans to offer EV-DO to about 129 million people by the middle of this year, and across the Sprint network by early 2006. (That won't include the 20% of Sprint's coverage area served by its affiliates.) ...
Another 3G network, by Cingular Wireless, is currently offered in only six cities, including San Francisco, Detroit, Phoenix and Seattle. But Cingular expects to have most major markets covered by the end of 2006. ... (Cingular uses UMTS/WCDMA, not EVDO.)
Nextel Communications Inc., which last month announced plans to merge with Sprint, has a 3G technology called Flash-OFDM that it has made available in North Carolina. ... it plans to eventually use Sprint's CDMA technology. ...
[T-Mobile] Chief Executive Robert Dotson recently said the carrier has no immediate plans to offer higher-speed data access anywhere on its current cellular network, and doesn't see deploying 3G services for at least two years.[/i]
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Dog-One
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Location: Greenville, SC
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| Quote: | | Nextel Communications Inc., which last month announced plans to merge with Sprint, has a 3G technology called Flash-OFDM that it has made available in North Carolina. ... it plans to eventually use Sprint's CDMA technology. ... |
That one is quite sad. Flarion technology is far beyond CDMA for pure packet data. I guess rebuilding an entire infrastructure is just too much a set back so instead push the inferior technology a little more--basically just ride that horse until it dies. Oh well, it isn't the first time and it won't be the last. |
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