Is the Bar Raised Too High for Cingular?

Iria · Jan 12, 2007, 03:44 AM

Source: BetaNews
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The world's mobile broadband standards were not devised to intentionally be in competition with one another, yet when competing cellular providers get their hands on them, they suddenly are. Cingular is the largest cellular provider in the US, and is now wholly owned by AT&T, by virtue of its merger with former partner RBOC, BellSouth. This week, Cingular has had one of the biggest cellular device announcements at CES, for the Palm Treo 750; and certainly the biggest one outside of CES, for the Apple iPhone. But neither device is geared to use the HSDPA higher-speed 3G network, which is supposedly being championed by Cingular.

We asked our analyst, Sharon Fisher, to figure out the meaning behind Cingular's HSDPA developments, or the lack thereof.

Jan 12, 2007, 03:44 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Is the Bar Raised Too High for Cingular? Source: BetaNews _________ The world's mobile broadband standards were not devised to intentionally be in competition with one another, yet when competing cellular providers get their hands on them, they suddenly are. Cingular is the largest cellular provider in the US, and is now wholly owned by AT&T, by virtue of its merger with former partner RBOC, BellSouth. This week, Cingular has had one of the biggest cellular device announcements at CES, for the Palm Treo 750; and certainly the biggest one outside of CES, for the Apple iPhone. But neither device is geared to use the HSDPA higher-speed 3G network, which is supposedly being championed by Cingular. We asked our analyst, Sharon Fisher, to figure out the meaning behind Cingular's HSDPA developments, or the lack thereof.