Ben,
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Catchy isn't it?
Did you expect that GSMA would go away in 2004 when 3G3 starts to proliferate, or that it would rename itself WCDMAA?
With 1 billion subscribers by 2005 this is somewhat unlikely, and I'm not sure that "harmonization" stretches that far..
Just as Dr. Jacobs has a problem saying SIM or USIM (because these items have so long been a distinguishing characteristic of GSM) and prefers R-UIM, I think that Chris Gent, Jim Healy, Juan Carlos Jil, Jim Murrell, George Schmitt, Gretel Hoffman, and John Stanton might likewise choke on "WCDMAA".
You heard it first from John.
Presumably you are aware of John and his wife Gretel's background, and are aware that John is not a Perry type (although it looks like he is being nicely creative here). They have made some remarkable contributions to GSMNA, the GSM MoU, and GSMA (as has Perry to CDG, I might add).
Any comments on "GRX". To me that was the most interesting part of the comments I excerpted from John's article.
Global Roaming, unfortunately, remains the "Achilles heel" of CDMA.
Global Roaming goes way beyond SIM/R-UIM "dual mode".
Global Roaming is not just about voice in the 2.5G and 3G Voice and Data eras that are dawning.
When SKT had it's evolved network architecture posted on the CDG website in April, did you happen to catch the term Global Roaming there in relation to the GSM network it plans to add for 3G3 services in 3G spectrum?
Meantime, evidently your horse has recovered. <g>
I am most relieved.
Happens to everybody in Japan I guess. Now this is not a reflection on CDMA, and KDDI's outages have been nowhere as frequent as DoCoMo's, but it does flag the issue of "data congestion", that all networks providing wireless data are going to face. It probably goes well beyond the capacity of the wireless pipe, and directly to server overload, which has accounted for many of 'i-modes's numerous (approaching 50) outages, and the several by KDDI.
Sorry no link. This happened yesterday.
>> KDDI Mobile Internet Service Disrupted
Service to users of the mobile telephone Internet service of Japan's second biggest telecoms firm DDI, better known as KDDI, was disrupted for more than 13 hours, domestic media quoted company officials as saying.
The glitch hit the EZweb Internet service and PacketOne high-speed data transmission service of KDDI mobile phone affiliates, the officials said, adding this affected 2.14 million subscribers in 34 of Japan's 47 prefectures.
Normal phone calls were not affected, officials said.
The trouble occurred due to data congestion at one network system of KDDI, Kyodo said.
KDDI officials were not available for comment on the media reports.
KDDI said last week it expects its mobile phone subscribers to grow by only 960,000 in the next six months to 15 million, substantially lower than rival NTT DoCoMo's forecast of a total 35 million subscribers by the end of March, a rise of 2.5 million.
DoCoMo's popular i-mode mobile telephone Internet service has been disrupted several times this year due to capacity problems. <<
PS: I'll take the 960,000 in 6 months. That is not bad growth by any stretch of anybodies imagination.
- Eric - |
