NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE ENTERPRISE 10/04/04 Today's focus: Mobile wars intensify
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That's up from two markets - San Diego and Washington, D.C. - for the CDMA EV-DO-based, 300K- to 500K-bit/sec service, which is burstable to 2M bit/sec. The service has been expanded to include Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Baltimore; Kansas City; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Milwaukee; New York; Philadelphia; Tampa, Fla.; and West Palm Beach, Fla. It is also being made available in 24 airports. (Let the 3G - Wi-Fi turf wars begin!) The expected expansion comes on the heels of AT&T Wireless adding coverage to its fledgling 220K- to 320K-bit/sec UMTS network, which is now available in Dallas, Detroit, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle and is burstable to 384K bit/sec. At this juncture, if your users might be traveling anywhere throughout the U.S., you should still probably be comparing the Verizon EV-DO service with EDGE services from AT&T Wireless or its soon-to-be-parent, Cingular Wireless. Both have nationwide EDGE networks that run at slower speeds (100K to 130K bit/sec), but reach many more places (about 7,500 cities and towns) than the UMTS or the EV-DO service. A big advantage that Verizon Wireless has at the moment, though, is that BroadbandAccess is backward compatible with Verizon's nationwide 60K- to 80K-bit/sec NationalAccess 1XRTT-based data service. So if you roam out of EV-DO territory, you automatically fall back to 1XRTT speeds. AT&T Wireless' UMTS service, on the other hand, is not backward compatible with EDGE - at least not yet. Rather, out-of-region UMTS roamers fall back to older GPRS services (at a piddling 20K to 40K bit/sec). So the question is whether existing EDGE customers - likely power data users - would be willing to give up full nationwide coverage at 130K bit/sec in return for three times the speed, but become limited to 14 markets (Verizon EV-DO) or for twice the speed but become limited to six markets (AT&T UMTS). My guess is they'll stay put for the moment. Next time: What about Sprint PCS? RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Verizon to spread 3G coverage Network World Fusion, 09/22/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0922vless.html The new wireless Network World, 09/27/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/buzz/2004/092704wireless.html Cingular, Sprint, Verizon in data arms race Computerworld, 06/22/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0622cingusprin.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Joanie Wexler Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future article topics. 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