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Profit is calculated after capital purchases are taken into account. The profit margins should include the amortized costs of the tower upgrades.
by hifoo 14y ago
Profit is calculated after capital purchases are taken into account. The profit margins should include the amortized costs of the tower upgrades.
- untog 14y agoSure, but the OP was suggesting that the networks haven't innovated. I'd say LTE is an innovation.
- jpxxx 14y agoNot to be sour, but an innovation in what? The first cellular network was a radio tower with a backhaul supporting handsets. LTE is a radio tower with a backhaul supporting handsets.
- glhaynes 14y agoWhat sort of innovation are you looking for? Your analogy could just as well be used like: the first food preparation was mixing together ingredients, sometimes with heat. Modern cooking is mixing together ingredients, sometimes with heat. I don't particularly love my carrier, but I have a choice of several and they bring me mostly-available mostly-quite-high-speed service for a small fraction of my paycheck. It would've blown me away 20 years ago to have such service on a wired connection.
- jpxxx 14y agoThat's my point, although I'm not sure my argument is illuminating much. Why do they request applause for selling what is essentially an unchanging utility? Data goes to and from the handset. Lower latency, cheaper, wider range, higher volume, diffserved, sorted, tabulated, billed, whatever, sure: if you define implementation improvements as "innovations" then the carriers are innovating. But the thing the customer consumes is the same as the first day they lit up the first network: timely data to a computationally-capable handset.
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