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I will look into the #'s, but I think it is easy to imagine that a software upgrade and some board transfer would be much more cost effective than tearing out all of the hardware and starting over from the skeletal remains of a base station as would be the case with the W-side of things. This is the way I understand it to be, but again, I do not want to sound like I have all the answers. It is the way I understand it and I am sure many here could possibly give input to such a thesis.
As for the belief part of my post... If you were a company such as a NOK that enjoyed for many years a killer stream of royalties, would you not want to ensure that you continue to get royalties? I look at it this way...These company's were in a race to dominate the next generation of wireless and all of a sudden an underdog comes out and claims they have the technology before any of the others. The others are currently the big dogs on the block and do not believe it, yet another has moved in and claims they have what it takes and then goes as far as to prove it. While the others are still scrambling to get things up and running, the underdog is starting the roll out. Now the underdog is beyond roll out and into the next phase and the next. The big dogs are still struggling to get their tech to work. So what would you do? I would do exactly what they did as to not be left behind. Take the new current technology and try to add a twist of my own and try to call it "mine". It has worked to a certain extent, but not to the extent that the big dog would have liked. JMMO
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