patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to adisor19
Re: iPhone and HSPA+ said by adisor19:A CDMA iphone will never happen. Also, you're wrong about never seeing an iPhone with AWS. Both AT&T as well as Rogers, Bell and Tellus have invested HUGE sums of $$ into AWS spectrum so you can BET that Apple will include the 1700Mhz frequency in a future iteration of their iPhone. Adi A 1700 handset will be a LTE handset, not a GSM/HSDPA handset with 1700. Not sure if LTE handsets will have CDMA/GSM fallback at this point. VZW is promising a forklift upgrade to LTE, unlike its 3G rollout.
ATT's AWS spectrum is fragmented »www.phonescoop.com/articles/arti···9&p=1495 , probably bought defensivly. Anyways Verizon has said only LTE is going on its AWS. ATT also said LTE only on AWS »www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=181827 . The chance of a HSDPA 1700 iPhone is Zero. |
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| I respectfully disagree. The complexity of adding the 1700Mhz band to the iPhone is very little : additional antenna is needed and the chip set needs to be certified for the new frequency. That's about it.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by adisor19:I respectfully disagree. The complexity of adding the 1700Mhz band to the iPhone is very little : additional antenna is needed and the chip set needs to be certified for the new frequency. That's about it. Adi The complexity is very little, but corporations don't think like humans. A proper engineer would release a 1700mhz handset, a CEO would never greenlight it without a business agreement being signed first, by the carrier who wants that 1700mhz phone. |
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I don’t think you got the memo. LTE will be data only to start (many years). And it’s going to take some time for the carriers build a business plan that monetizes mobile VOIP. I don’t know one carrier that plans on cannibalizing their revenue for the sake of innovation. |
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