“It took a long time for 3G handsets to get to the point where they were competitive with 2G-type phones,” said Fred Wright, Motorola’s senior vice president who oversees cellular networks and WiMax, in a recent interview about 4G with FierceWireless.com.“That clearly comes from volume and scale. It’s a chicken-and-egg scenario. It takes time to deploy these technologies, and someone ultimately has to pay the higher price for devices. Once you get the volume, you see the prices come down to volume and scale economies. That is natural with any consumer electronics device.”
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