Joel West wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Once upon a time, the Europeans and Japanese that strategically allied to make a common W-CDMA standard in hopes of pre-empting the Americans and dominating the world, but that didn’t happen.
The whole global roaming argument seemed like a nonstarter, as a few people said at the time. Sure, Europeans wander around within the EU and perhaps to Mediterranean beaches, but how many go to the US or Asia? How many Americans travel enough outside North America to care about GSM (W-CDMA) coverage? I can’t imagine it’s more than 5%.
But without a single standard, there was an interest in having dual-mode phones — more from the CDMA subscriber sides than the GSM side, since there are lots of W-CDMA only countries and only a few that are exclusively or dominated by cdma2000. Thus for years, Qualcomm has been planning and now offering MSM chips that support both the W-CDMA and […]
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