Posted by Super G
it's about time to wake up...
http://www.gsacom.com/news/st[....]a440214c6c409e3b49f195b244743a
EDGE deployment: 187 networks in 98 countries
136 commercial EDGE networks in 76 countries (including UK)
30% of commercial WCDMA networks also launched EDGE
65 combined WCDMA-EDGE networks (32 in commercial use already)
Source: Global mobile Suppliers Association www.gsacom.com
Posted by sosojerk
Its interesting...
There is a live counter there at their page showing the overall number of GSM subscribers growing every second...
How do they know this for the whole world?
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Posted by Sammy_boy
I didn't realise the UK had EDGE? What networks are they?
Posted by Super G
Orange
Posted by jcwhite_uk
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Are you sure. I cant find any reference to it on the orange website or on the gsm website.
Oranges website lists:3G, GPRS and High speed data (HDCSD)
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It's just following statistics. Simple to make a counter to estimate the numbers.
The point is anyway there are about 1.7 BILLION GSM customers worldwide!
In 2005 alone, in average 1 million new GSM subscribers were added every single day!!
Posted by jcwhite_uk
Ok. Found it. Orange UK do have EDGE. I have posted the press release in a new thread.
Posted by OluYom
And I remember some people argued that EDGE was dead last year. They didn't exactly use the word "dead". Stop-gap or not; EDGE rocks!
Posted by brix25
EDGE is brilliant alongside 3G or where networks have no plans of launching 3G networks.
Posted by JK
Hahahaha!! I wonder what Mr Wedgy would say bout this!!
and the rest of these ...
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=101643&start=75
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Posted by Super G
@786KBR
They might never admit they were wrong
although we told them a long time ago.
They should listen to us
Posted by ares
lack of EDGE didnīt stop SE from selling 3M illion walkman phones, and some more of k750īs lol
i stick to what i always said, EDGE doesnīt mean s.... for me, and in countries were 3G phones are right now dirt cheap either
right now in my country 3G is everywere, even competing with cable and adsl networks for internet acess
but i accept EDGE is a big thing in some countries, and that people love it there and wish that SE launched more EDGE phones
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mmm Maybe they would have sold more?
Posted by jmcomms
Well, I'm on Orange and now we've got EDGE I suddenly wish all me SE phones supported it!! It would have meant my W800i would have been nearly as good as the W900i.
I guess the W810i will be quite popular on Orange, if Orange actually do a good job of marketing EDGE in the UK.
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I doubt it, 99% of customers I speak to don't even understand the concept of GPRS data, never mind 3G. The number of customers who didn't even have GPRS settings and were quite happy using dialup GSM was alarming! Edge would just be pushing it.
The fact is, the consumer market doesn't particularly care how data is downloaded, just so long as it doesn't cost too much. it's only the comparitively small specialist market that needs/understands/appeciates edge. I don't think I've ever sold a phone in the last 3 years on the basis of it's data speed, I can't see why edge would change that situation. As far as your average punter is concerned its just another meaningless accronym on the box.
I don't blame SE for concentrating on the larger consumer market. In scotland anyway the demand for high speed data is pretty much non exisitant, gprs is more than enough for a few wallpapers and a couple of dodgy ring tones. The customers I deal with on 3g rarely use their phones bandwidth for anything more than text wap pages, so why should edge be included, when people rarely use data enough to warrent the extra cost?
Sure it's popular on here, but we count for a very bias section of the market.
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Ok we going in circles! YAY for EDGE and SE...
Posted by brix25
Arguing against EDGE rollout is pointless. Like mentioned before many markets won't 3G networks any time soon, switching over to EDGE is a good transition on the eventual path to 3G rollout.
Posted by DeLa
There are a lot of edge-applications in the mobile networking business, where one uses a card rather than a phone. Edge then is an rather cheap and fast way of offering complete coverage at an useable speed.