In the globalisation, survival a company or the service depends his success in winning the "standard battle". The winner will dominate market-even developing to monopoly-loser will slowly disappear from the battle arena. So the natural selection will happen in the world of technology, including the moving telecommunications (mobile). The competition between GSM and CDMA becomes the topic that is interesting to be discussed. GSM technology is used by IM3, Telkomsel, Satelindo, and Exel. As for CDMA 2000 1X am technology that is used by the "Feathered Wolf the Sheep TelkomFlexi".
Must be recorded that there is no best technological guarantee will win the battle. For them who are quite old possibly still remember the standard battle of the Betamax video with VHS the year of 70–80-an. During 1975, Sony launches the Betamax standard, that is opposed by Japan Victor Company (JVC) with the VHS standard a year later. Proven in the year 1985-an, 90 percent video player in the world use VHS. Betamax lose! In the long run, the market and the sale that will determine not technology. Compared with VHS, Betamax more superior but fail. Because of VHS, as GSM in the cellular phone, is adopted as deh facto that will become the standard of the superior marketing blessing that is carried out by JVC, of Panasonic, and other. In the world of the PC computer in the beginning of the 90 's, the IBM PC standard actually do not pull. There is often am alternative that can work better and work with more efficient. The strongest rival IBM PC is Apple with Machintosh him and afterwards PowerPC.
Evidently, openness (openess) IBM PC technology that causes the number of manufacturers and the company software spring up. As a result, the price becomes cheap and the thing is easy to be received. The PC computer market the complete and complex market is formed, do not care as good the alternative or competitor-they only will enter the market niche. For the person who wants to use the computer, PC is the best answer.
Apple Machintosh loses! All over the world, lusinan technology is involved in the standard battle. The violent battle happens to the market territory, where being gotten by the impact of the very strong network. The user gives added value in compatibility and the interconnection of one in an other manner. The potent strategy to win am interesting the customer totalling possibly the user, as being seen in Betamax versus VHS or also in Apple versus PC. Today, the standard battle of the telecommunications mobile happen to GSM versus CDMA. may Indonesia not carry out the fatal mistake in taking a step. It is hoped we can learn from the Betamax defeat and Apple. Let's see thoroughly the telecommunications battle mobile that happen.
Like the estimate of a standard that ten years are younger, CDMA possibly has several technological surpluses compared to GSM. CDMA Technology can put several discussions canals in a spectrum discount of the frequency, keep against derau (noise), and keep the impasse. If not having telephone technology mobile that is other on this earth, and the competition only based in the progress of technology only, possibly CDMA will win. Unfortunately, in this world of CDMA not one by one him the standard, so as CDMA cannot win the battle.
Please see the perspective of the market from EMC Database (www.emc-database.com), Europe and Asia control 73.2 percent cellular market share the world totally the customer around one billion. North America that is the CDMA post only controls 13 percent, that then only partly uses CDMA. Secara CDMA technology only controls 12 percent market share, whereas GSM approaches 69 percent. The market mobile the data 72 percent is controlled by GSM, CDMA 20001X not more unequivocal. The user prabayar 81 percent is controlled by GSM. the consequences are very simple, more GSM telephones in the market than CDMA. Not surprised if fitur best emerge in GSM first (sometimes remain in GSM). All the countries in Europe and the Middle East, some Asian countries, Africa, and Australia use GSM. Roaming between-510 the GSM operator in 174 countries is the everyday living reality.
Please correspond sms with colleagues that is overseas, all can be carried out easily and cheaply. Take the cellular phone GSM you to the United States and Canada that are the CDMA headquarters, don't be startled the cellular phone GSM you operate also in North America. Only a note, during me writes this article am being in Ottawa, Canada. Please am the reverse with CDMA, the misery. One of the interesting notes is received from Wireless the Network Developer from 3GSM World Congress in Cannes in February 2003. By setting aside all prejudice and the too simple argumentation, the question that in answer am with technology whether the operator GSM, TDMA, and CDMA will maximise future revenue?
The election of technology of the evolution route is the long-term decision. What route that must be used so that minimal investment in the implementation of the network of the telecommunications mobile 3G that is oriented towards the high speed data with the technological legation at this time? Several conclusions that are taken by Nothstream (www.northstream.se) in 3GSM in part, the introduction to the data service is not connected with infrastructure technology that is used. Meaning that, very possibly an operator fails to give the data service although infrastructure technology beneath it is very supportive. Technology of GSM 1X from Qualcomm apparently become one of the Qualcomm efforts to give the route for the GSM operator for the migration to the high speed data like to CDMA 2000 1X (the wolf has feathers the sheep). Unfortunately for Qualcomm, the speed of the high data not the main promoter of adoption of the data service.The service that will be adopted by the market mobile the data usually does not demand the speed of the data. Finally, Nothstream concludes that the operator GSM will choose WCDMA as his evolution route. GSM technology will with the service of the GPRS data continue to dominate the global market during several forthcoming years, whereas WCDMA will become technology 3G that is dominant for a long time. Really do not enter the mind if having the country that gives the mandate of only Macintosh computers that can operate. His analogy is clear enough, Qualcomm the CDMA technological developer, like Apple Computer with Macintosh. They try to close the meeting of his technology and do not want that is other use their technology. And, they close the meeting of his weakness, if being available. Do you want to depend? I not.
Source : Onno W Purbo the Writer of the Independent's Information Technology, the Former ITB Lecturer