01-09-2007, 08:39 PM
All this stuff about being behind in cellular is bull.
The agnostic view of the FCC when it came to the new PCS spectrum a decade ago led to competion between the D-AMPS(IS-136), CDMA(IS-95), and GSM standards-unlike the Europeans governments, who forced GSM on all of the carriers.
That led to competion among the different radio access formats, without that, we'd be still stuck with GPRS-like data rates.
CDMA was by far a superior concept, and even the Europeans agreed, thus we got UMTS. Qualcomm came out with EV-DO, which blew WCDMA out of the water as far as data rates go, so the Europeans had to develop HSPDA.
Now, were talking about doing WiMax, and you've probably seen how that's going to change things.
All because the FCC didn't force a standard.
The agnostic view of the FCC when it came to the new PCS spectrum a decade ago led to competion between the D-AMPS(IS-136), CDMA(IS-95), and GSM standards-unlike the Europeans governments, who forced GSM on all of the carriers.
That led to competion among the different radio access formats, without that, we'd be still stuck with GPRS-like data rates.
CDMA was by far a superior concept, and even the Europeans agreed, thus we got UMTS. Qualcomm came out with EV-DO, which blew WCDMA out of the water as far as data rates go, so the Europeans had to develop HSPDA.
Now, were talking about doing WiMax, and you've probably seen how that's going to change things.
All because the FCC didn't force a standard.