Monday, December 19, 2005
Siemens Says US Mobile Could Shift To GSM
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 06:00 AM
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2005-12-15T195102Z_01_SCH528215_RTRUKOC_0_US-SIEMENS-NETWORKS.xml
"Siemens believes North American telecoms operators could shift to the GSM mobile standard from the rival CDMA system, a senior company executive said in an interview published on Thursday. "Latin America is already moving from CDMA technologies to GSM," Christoph Catselitz, the head of Siemens AG's mobile networks business told Finnish business daily Taloussanomat. "I would not bet on North America continuing with CDMA."
Well, as much as I prefer GSM because my phone works in South America and Europe, I don't put a lot of credibility in this statement. Verizon is the number one carrier and has a massive EVDO rollout in the works, far ahead of anything Cingular or T-Mobile, the GSM carriers in the US, have. I personally don't care which technology is used, as long as it is just one. It is so frustrating to have to worry about GSM vs CDMA and different frequencies on GSM where you now have to have a quad-band GSM phone to be guaranteed of a connection. My JasJar has UMTS, but it is 2100MHz. My understanding is in the US, UMTS will be 1900MHz. You want to know why the cool devices are so expensive? They have to support and be tested with half a dozen frequencies! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! :frusty:
Could be worse. We could see a new Windows Mobile device released that supports TDMA. :roll:
"Siemens believes North American telecoms operators could shift to the GSM mobile standard from the rival CDMA system, a senior company executive said in an interview published on Thursday. "Latin America is already moving from CDMA technologies to GSM," Christoph Catselitz, the head of Siemens AG's mobile networks business told Finnish business daily Taloussanomat. "I would not bet on North America continuing with CDMA."
Well, as much as I prefer GSM because my phone works in South America and Europe, I don't put a lot of credibility in this statement. Verizon is the number one carrier and has a massive EVDO rollout in the works, far ahead of anything Cingular or T-Mobile, the GSM carriers in the US, have. I personally don't care which technology is used, as long as it is just one. It is so frustrating to have to worry about GSM vs CDMA and different frequencies on GSM where you now have to have a quad-band GSM phone to be guaranteed of a connection. My JasJar has UMTS, but it is 2100MHz. My understanding is in the US, UMTS will be 1900MHz. You want to know why the cool devices are so expensive? They have to support and be tested with half a dozen frequencies! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! :frusty:
Could be worse. We could see a new Windows Mobile device released that supports TDMA. :roll:
