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USTR Critical Of Japanese TD-CDMA Licensing
News for nerds writes "Yahoo Asia reports that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said in its annual report that the Japanese government has so far refused to issue experimental licenses to certain U.S. companies to test the new TD-CDMA technology. It attacks China and S. Korea along the line. The funny thing is, according to Impress Internet Watch, the Japanese government states that no U.S. companies had actually applied for the license so far. ITmedia also reports the Japanese government didn't deny foreign application, while criticizing the government for too narrow bandwidth of TD-CDMA that can be monopolized easily. Is this the precursor of another wave of pressure onto technology from Japan?"
is this about? I can't make head or tail of that paragraph.
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I am invincible!
CDMA sucks big ones.
GSM is the way to go, obviously.
CDMA is horribly US centric, except for other isolated networks (south korea and Australia - some places) no one uses CDMA.
It's a dead donkey folks, this parrot is no more.
And for the folks who say the biggest carrier in the US is CDMA, don't forget the cingular - at&t merger - this puts GSM as your #1.
Go GSM.
I suppose the French must be pleased, since originally GSM meant groupe system mobile, or some other equally francophile acronym.
All you have to do is pick up a GSM handset and LISTEN to the sound quality, it has much better frequency response than CDMA. Granted CDMA crams more calls onto the same bandwidth, but at quality loss. Your average verizon customer can't tell though, but then again, has no use for bluetooth either, and an apparent disregard for travelling overseas.
Japan (to it's own expense) also has a system that is not compatible with anything else. Nice bandwidth, but only works in Japan. Bummer.
My phone works in 120 countries world wide. I've been all over this planet of ours and guess what, my 408 number has worked everywhere. From the deepths of India, through Europe and on several networks in Beijing.
The US needs to get with the plot here.
Qualcomm needs to rollover and die, finally.
live a little, break some stuff, smash it up, get in a fight, steal a car, have sex, do some drugs, feel ALIVE
That is because Japan understands that there are better things to spend money on than policing a world that does not want to be policed. Our current dilemma with the Shiite Muslims in Iraq is a textbook example of why so many people hate this country. We should be trying to place the Shiite's in control of Iraq, but instead we shut down their newspaper for speaking out and issue an arrest warrant for the most important Shiite in Iraq. The Sadam opposed the Shiite and killed al-Sadr's father. You would think if we can't stay out of peoples business that at least we would be little better at diplomacy. I know I'll be voting anyone-but-bush in the next election.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Is completely incompetent.
Look at the Agriculture Department. Four years ago, our food was relatively safe. Now, we have mad cow disease.
Look at the environment.
Look at foreign policy.
Look at the schools.
Look at health care.
Look at Ashcroft's war on "pirates" and pr0n
Look at Condi Rice, lying through her teeth about not being warned.
Look at the World Trade Center.
Incompetent, incompetent, incompetent. THE WORST ADMINISTRATION EVER! Comic Book Guy