Another good month for KDDI. Never have so many been wrong so often than with 3G and WCDMA. Telecom leaders went from the ground up/miracle timing of GSM in Europe and i-mode in Japan to the "build it and they will come" mentality of 3G. Except this movie has a different ending. While a few people trickle into the new golden baseball field in the middle of nowhere, there's a fireworks show just starting called...cdma2000. The new golden field is real expensive to get into, and the games are not nearly as good as advertised. Meanwhile, over at that whacky cdma2000 field customers find that their tickets to the older field are still good at the new field! bonus!

A friend just sent me a rant from YAEQCER (Yet Another Ex-QUALCOMMer). If you don't know the details, he's added some....