EV-DO (pretty much) kills EV-DV
posted Mar 6th 2005 1:53PM
You don't hear all that much about it anymore, but once upon a time
EV-DV, a 3G wireless standard with download
speeds as fast as 3 Mbps and uploads as fast as 1.8 Mbps (which makes it easier to make video
calls), was going to be Sprint's secret weapon to edge out Verizon in the wireless wars (Verizon having decided to go
with EV-DO, which is slower
and less efficient than EV-DV). But then Sprint announced
back in June of last year that they were going to roll with EV-DO instead, and since then Qualcomm has decided to
respond to what has been pretty much every carrier's general apathy to the standard by announcing the other day that
they were putting development of EV-DV on indefinite hiatus. It's hard to mourn a wireless standard, but in case you're
bothered by this, apparently the next revision of EV-DO will offer a bump up in speed.
[Via PhoneScoop]
I don't think either of these technologies has received the appropriate amount of attention by people and companies. Broadband available everywhere, without hotspots? This is huge if you ask me. Sure, it's expensive now, but it will and should come down soon. There should be more tech coming out based on this. Hello, internet in cars? Internet everywhere!!
You would think with the ever growing WIFI HotSpots the thought of having broadband everywhere you have cellphone service would seem more interesting. Hopefully this technology starts to take off.
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I had the good fortune to see EV-DO at work while doing some consulting for Verizon last month. Holy crap. It's literally like DSL over your cell phone. It's so much faster than any cell-based data standard that I'd really call it a paradigm-shifter... that is, if it could possibly be cheap enough for people to use it.
It is worth pointing out that in the area I was in, the Verizon employees were pretty much the only ones who had access. As I understand it, throughput decreases as the number of users on a single cell increases, so real-life numbers might not be as impressive as I saw.
The Speed and Ubiquity of EVDO is impressive. BUT the latency issues as well as upload speeds leave room for improvement. HSdpa will not do much better in the upload dept BUT... sure will put pressure on verizon to step it up.
Korean carriers are usually the first to go to market with any Qualcomm standard, and judging from the various reports, it looks like LGT's decision not to adopt EV-DV dealt the final blow. Honestly, I find Qualcomm's decision to cut its losses to be refreshing and kinda admirable. Now if only I could get EV-DO where I live...
Korean carriers are usually the first to go to market with any Qualcomm standard, and judging from the various reports, it looks like LGT's decision not to adopt EV-DV dealt the final blow. Honestly, I find Qualcomm's decision to cut its losses to be refreshing and kinda admirable. Now if only I could get EV-DO where I live...