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On Thu, 9 May 2002 22:59:01, jfulton@actrix.gen.nz (John Fulton)
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>While CDMA may be the technically more advances, GSM has not been staying
>still.  Most people who use a mobile want to either text or talk.  Most people
>are not worried about internet connectivity.  I certainly could not give a
>stuff about mobile connectivity to the internet - it is so much hype without
>any real commercial application that is worth paying good money for.  There
>may be a few specialised applications where it fits, but in general these are
>few and far between!
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Satellite navigation delivered via cellphone (delivered as series of
tiny maps in your display screen)?
Graphical weather forecasts?
Ability to peruse a parts catelogue on site so that you can order the
part down from the warehouse in Auckland asap?
Perhaps cricket is one game that one could follow by 3G phone?   You
could have a graphical display showing dots as the position of the
fielders.  A linear representaion of where each ball was hit?
What about security.  The ability to offer optical eye pattern
recognition and transmissionas a security feature?
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>Hype is a wonderful thing as Microsoft have found out and capitalised upon!  
>I am sure that Telecom is trying to do the same thing!
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You mean that Telecom is pushing CDMA as superior, when practically it
isn't?
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>I don't think that bandwidth is an issue for most people, and that is where
>the market is.  
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But maybe the demand for bandwidth won't be customer driven?  Maybe it
will be application (supply side) driven as the software writers write
applications that are more and more resouce greedy.
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>The mass production of an item is essential if it is to become
>ubiquitous.  Wide bandwidth to a mobile is not going to be the big seller
>that will make our current mobiles obsolete.  There will of course be
>advances, but these will be incremental, and targeted at a wide market
>segment.
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Perhaps the pure voice bandwidth will be shut down to free up that
part of the transmission spectrum and the small minority who use it
will be forced to migrate to 3G. SNOOPY




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