"Apparently there are many operators placing there bets otherwise"
Yes, and those debt laden carriers who spent billions on spectrum will have to receive vendor financing from the likes of Nok and Ericcson to ever get their W-CDMA systems up. Lots of cash problems with those carriers, meanwhile the 2G CDMA carriers are upgrading their entire systems in existing spectrum with no problems and little cost.
"Hmmm, I thought NTT's system was working, did they turn it off."
I guess I should have distinguished working from working well. There's a reason they've got customer totals in the thousands after a year and KDDI signs up that many in a month...phone returns and system bugs don't make for a working system IMO.
"Are your conclusions solely based on one operator in Japan..."
No, Japan, Korea, China, the U.S., Canada, plenty are on board or are getting on board.
"Then there is Hutchison with 2 different systems which will go commercial."
WILL GO COMMERCIAL, exactly, so it's not up and running yet. How long will it take to work the bugs out of that system? Years.
"All this for something that does not work....Is QCOm selling WCDMA chips that don't work, or is it that their's is the only working one... I am confused now."
There's a difference between a working chipset and and properly working network, still confused?
"Can you really compare a 40-70KBPS data speed for 1X to the 384K claimed by NTT?"
Now that seems like an unfair argument wouldn't you agree, you quote the average speed for 1X (which will vary depending on the network, time of day, etc) and the peak claimed by NTT...and the problem there, NTT's system doesn't work well, so who cares what they claim. What are NTT's average rates, on a working phone?
Like I said, if there's any demand, which who knows when there will be, it'll be another easy upgrade to 3X or HDR. The carriers will tell QCOM and the equipment manufacturers if they want it or not.
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