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EDGE is boooooooming (for those who didn't already know it) |
Super G
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 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 |
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sosojerk
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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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Sammy_boy
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I didn't realise the UK had EDGE? What networks are they?
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Super G
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Orange |
jcwhite_uk
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On 2006-02-14 17:26:05, Super G wrote:
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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) |
Super G
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On 2006-02-14 16:42:06, sosojerk wrote:
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?
[ This Message was edited by: sosojerk on 2006-02-14 15:42 ]
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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!! |
jcwhite_uk
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Ok. Found it. Orange UK do have EDGE. I have posted the press release in a new thread.
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OluYom
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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!
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brix25
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EDGE is brilliant alongside 3G or where networks have no plans of launching 3G networks.
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JK
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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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Super G
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@786KBR
They might never admit they were wrong  although we told them a long time ago.
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ares
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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
SE w880 + Iphone 4 16gb |
JK
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On 2006-02-15 11:47:36, Arez wrote:
lack of EDGE didnīt stop SE from selling 3M illion walkman phones, and some more of k750īs lol
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mmm Maybe they would have sold more? |
jmcomms
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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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exilis
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On 2006-02-15 11:55:27, 786KBR wrote:
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On 2006-02-15 11:47:36, Arez wrote:
lack of EDGE didnīt stop SE from selling 3M illion walkman phones, and some more of k750īs lol
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mmm Maybe they would have sold more?
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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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