Friday, December 08, 2006

Announcement

Dear All,
There won't be any class on the 12/12/2006. Please post your work in this blog for inputs, I might have problem in opening my email since I will be in a remote part of Indonesia.
Regards
Jati

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Global Competition between GSM and CDMA in Providing The Best Service to The Publics in Indonesia


It's probably the understatement of the decade to say that cell phones have become the single greatest tool in business. In today’s world the ability to communicate with business associates while on the go is not just an advantage, it’s a necessity. And because of that, the choices we make when choosing our handheld devices matter more than ever. (very good)

When it comes time to select a cell phone or smart phone, the major part of the evaluation we make focuses on the features and benefits of the handset. Does it provide access to the Internet and email? Does it contain an organizer that will sync with Outlook, so you can take your scheduler, contacts, and information on the road? And most importantly, does it look slick? (better if you write the idea in sentences not in the form of questions)

But if our conduct a lot of ours business on the road or internationally, the most important decision we make regarding ours service may not have anything at all to do with the features we usually consider important for handhelds. We choice of carrier and the technology it uses for its network might make the difference between being productive or ending up out of area. (avoid using ‘we’, as we discussed in class)

By now, we’ve probably heard all of the acronyms in the alphabet soup of carrier technologies. The two major terms that pertain to cellular phone communication that we’re likely to run into are GSM and CDMA, the two major technologies service providers use to carry voice signals across the network. But what are they and why do they matter? There are our focuses now, so in this paper we will reveal some things in other to make clear the problem about this case, such as: (avoid using ‘we’, as we discussed in class)

  1. Here are two major methods for wireless communication. They are CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications). Those two methods, which have different protocol and standards, have different process for providing wireless communication. How those two methods exactly work?
  2. Those different processes explained above, will lead to the difference of their advantages. Futhermore, current-marketing-scope of those two methods will differ their advantages too. What are advantages and disadvantages of those two methods?
  3. Those two methods have the same business action. Futhermore, those methods may exploit the same network coverage too. Hence, how far exactly those two methods interfere each other?
  4. Is there any method that can exploit the advantages from those two methods? If any, is the alternative method will increase the interferences (especially the negative ones) between those methods?
  5. In Indonesia as a local scope, both of them have been implemented far enough. Which of them is dominantly used? At the future, which of them will be expanded further? If there is any alternative method, can it be implemented? How about the global scope?