(keitai-l) Re: More 3G delay reasons

Hi,

i don't know so much about the tech specs, but what i read from one
newsletter is that the DoCoMo is using improved standard, a tweaked version
of what will be used in other countries. they say that it is to improve the
quality of the service. in practise this would mean that they are using a
"microsoft-style standard", taking a standard and making their own changes
to it, which actually conflicts with the idea of a standard, having a
uniform set of specs around the world.

joe

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Sent: 29. huhtikuuta 2001 20:22
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Subject: (keitai-l) More 3G delay reasons


I heard from visitors of DoCoMo's press release on Thursday that there were
more reasons for the delay, which I haven't seen in news anywhere.

Those reasons were issues regarding the standard, and the fact that DoCoMo
would have to upgrade a lot of the first system to adapt to new versions of
the standard.

It seems a bit far-fetched since most other 3G projects in Europe and at
other places uses the Release 99 standard. And they would probably not have
the newer Release 4 (yes, there is a naming confusion in 3gpp, after 99
comes 4...).

But still, the Release 99 version is not really up to a tenth of the hype
around 3G. But as it seems now, Release 4 could not be ready for use
already in October.

Has anyone seen anything more on this?

(You need to be a real geek to find some readable info on 3gpp's site on
standard versions. See www.3gpp.org)

/g



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