Tag: economy
Wireless Bluebloods, or why inbreeding isn’t good for our wireless economy
by Hans on Jan.22, 2009, under Government, Industry, Opinion
As recently as a few months ago, CDMA was being touted as a “CDMA ecosystem”, to a group of developers for their BREW software at a product conference in San Diego. That CDMA has been one of the underlying technologies responsible for Sprint and Verizon’s mobile networks is beyond dispute. That those networks are incredible revenue creation machines and that those companies provide thousands of jobs is also indisputable. The future of the technology is where I beg to differ with Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcom. The vast majority of the world is on GSM, with WiMax being a second rapidly growing networking technology that will rapidly dwarf CDMA in all but those markets in which massive investments in the technology have already been made. There, a return on investment must be wrung out of the technology before a replacement can even be considered.
Which brings me to the inbreeding point. (continue reading…)
