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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 27 September 2007 | |
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Page 4 of 4 Déjà vu! A decade ago when GSM was an emerging and far from global digital cellular technology and facing a strong rival in the US-promoted digital AMPS standard as a strong rival - and Australia was debating whether to go GSM or D-AMPS - Ericsson was very vocal in its support for D-AMPS. Featured Whitepaper
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"Ericsson is promoting cellular technology based on the IS-136 [D-AMPS] standard as the ideal technology for use in Australia in the 800MHz band soon to be vacated by Telstra's AMPS cellular service. Ericsson held a briefing in Sydney for press, carriers and potential carriers to promote the concept that the IS-136 technology can provide cellular mobile, wireless office, cordless home phone and wireless local loop functionality for voice and high speed data. Ericsson claims that the key feature of IS-136, which puts it ahead of rival technologies and in particular GSM, is its ability to support hierarchical cell structures. This would enable one handset to operate on a public D-Amps mobile network and as a wireless PABX extension on a smaller cell structure spanning a company's office. Ericsson said that a D-AMPS network could provide local access as an alternative to "digging up the street". It claims that the largest fixed wireless installation to date, in Malaysia, uses Ericsson's D-AMPS/AMPS technology. It is being used to provide additional capacity in high density urban areas. Ericsson also claims that D-AMPS is ideal for data communications: it is the first cellular technology to support cellular packet data at 19.2kbps and capacity will increase to 32 and 64kps and IS-136 will be able to support circuit switched data at 2Mbps. The moral of this story: take all claims on the relative merits of different technologies with a large pinch of salt.{moscomment} |
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