Re:Don't forget latency (Score 1)

I work for a PCS company that is planning for the deployment of the technology refered to in the qualcomm article. Every part of the network will be packet based and as such latency shuold be greatly reduced. Instead of having circut switched T1's going to all the cell sites we will now be running ATM over all of the T1's between the cell site and the switch. All data will be pulled off as it enters the switch and be piped directly to a router. Also the way I understand it now there will be a cable that you can run from your phone to a NIC so you can use your phone in a similar way that you use a DSL or cable modem now. I am yet to see any of this in action yet so I will withold my final opinon until our field trials are over.