Ilmarinen,
<<Ben, is US going to stay circuit switched?? .. "But only in Europe" (going circuit switched to packet routed) ... But you are kind of correct, GPRS must not succeed, it just will succeed, because who will stay circuit
switched??. >>
Maybe you should explain the difference between a bearer service and a radio transmission access technology. There may be some that do not realize that GPRS can (and will) use various radio interfaces such as DECT, EDGE, WCDMA, WLAN, (IEEE 802.11), infrared, (IrDA), and maybe someday 1xRTT, or 1xEV, or at least so sayeth Hannu H. Kari.
<< Ben, is US going to stay circuit switched?? >>
I wonder myself, if (unlike the Korean carriers and DDI), in skipping the IS-95B step of the cdmaOne to cdma2000 cocktail party migration, Verizon and Sprint PCS may have done themselves a disservice, that will cause the migration to 1xRTT here to take longer than anticipated, for lack of experience with packet data.
On the other hand perhaps 1xRTT is plug and play.
One thing I do NOT expect is to have either Sprint PCS, pull a Cellnet, Sonera, DoCoMo, or Manx, just for the sake of being first to market in the USA.
Oliver Valente has deservedly gained a lot of respect in the Sprint PCS organization since he started the CDMA buildout in late 1995. Sprint PCS still publicly committed to nationwide 1xRTT by mid-2002. That is pretty aggressive.
The entities that are now Verizon likewise. More complex task so slow and steady. Sound network planning all the way. Verizon has of course, plenty of experience with packet data on the CDPD side of their business.
Still, perhaps not as smooth and fast as we might like to see.
Time will tell.
- Eric - |
