(keitai-l) Re: 3G PCMCIA card?

His comments are probably based on DCM's current PDC reality extrapoliated
into the future:  huge numbers of subscribers + increasing demand for both
voice and data = insufficient bandwidth.  This is the biggest reason for DCM
moving quickly to wCDMA from PDC.  Tachikawa-san's comments are probably
based on DCM's assuming that the same phenomenon is going to happen in 3G.

-----Original Message-----
From: ext Nik Frengle [mailto:eseller@eimode.com]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:26 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: 3G PCMCIA card? 


"dtalbot" <dtalbot@j-com.co.jp> wrote:
> http://nnb.nikkeibp.co.jp/nnb/F_NEWS/20010907010.html
>
Hmm...I read this article, and said to myself 'I wonder how much data a user
can transfer if they buy the Packet Pack 80. It turns out to about 48 mb/mo.
for the initial 8000 yen. air H" on the other hand allows unlimited access
for less.
For Tachikawa to make such a statment as "There is no room  for an MVNO"
surprised me, but at the bottom of the story it gave the full quote:
MVNOに設備を提供するには、周波数の空きが必要。しかしFOMAでは、周波数が足りないぐらいだ。MVNOが入る余地はない」
(Sorry if your browser doesn't allow Japanese and the above is garbage)
I believe this means he said that a frequency allocation would be neccesary
for an MVNO, and that with Foma there isn't enough frequency as it is. I
really didn't understand that remark at all. Foma is all about frequency,
and if there wasn't going to be enough frequency, why build it in the first
place? Why not go directly to 4G? I think the comment was probably just
ill-informed on his part.

> Until I read this I thought that FOMA data services (likewise KDDI's HDR
> services) were going to use purely pay-per-packet tariffs. I suppose
DoCoMo
> have been following the recent trends in PHS data services, moving towards
> flat
> monthly rates (Air-H", b-mobile Data Service etc.)
The article says nothing about Foma moving to flat rate. The packet pack is
not flat rate, since the per packet charge is the same for the first 400,000
packets as for any that are used over that. It is only flat rate in the
sense that DoCoMo forces you to buy the package if you want the lower packet
rate.
Cheers,
Nik Frengle


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