Community update: The 850 MHz issue
thomas.cooksey at bt.com
thomas.cooksey at bt.com
Tue Nov 6 17:30:48 CET 2007
>Its really hard to imagine a company building a phone that didnt think
>through what frequencies were needed. More interestingly, that it took
>a trip from Michael to Taiwan to get anyone to focus on it. If this
>substantially sets back the development effort, it really is a major
>blow to the project.
In all fairness to OpenMoko, I think 850 Mhz is only used by the USA and
Canada, which only account for ~10% of mobile phones in the world.
That's according to statistics at
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P7222
United States: 201.6m + Canada: 16.6m = 218.2m
World: 2.14bn
So the OpenMoko can still be used in 90% of the GSM world. Although,
having said that, I feel people's pain. :-(
Plus I guess you have to factor in that the number of potential OpenMoko
users/developers/hackers in the USA is probably _way_ higher than 10%.
:-)
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