re: UWCC Raction to Shostek CDG whitepaper
>> TDMA Group Hits Back At CDMA Group Report
UK Cellular News
June 18, 2001
The TDMA operators body, the UWCC has said that they do not agree with many of the conclusions found in the recent CDMA Development Group (CDG) sponsored white paper by The Shosteck Group. "The report fails to explain, in an evenhanded manner, the benefits of TDMA operators migrating to GPRS/EDGE and UMTS technologies," stated Chris Pearson, Executive Vice President for the UWCC. "The UWCC supports a vision of worldwide seamless voice and data communications through the interoperability and convergence of TDMA with the GSM evolution. This technology evolution does not include CDMA2000 for various fundamental reasons." Pearson further commented, "The CDG report failed to mention the overwhelming global support for the evolution to 3G based on a GPRS core network with over 140 carriers worldwide endorsing it. It’s very difficult to envision a TDMA operator choosing a second network of 1xRTT, when in a couple years, they would need to choose a third technology of EDGE or UMTS to enable a global roaming footprint and achieve the best applications and economies of scale to compete. This argument is highlighted by the recently announced intentions of CDMA IS-95/1xRTT carriers, SK Telecom of Korea and Verizon Wireless in the United States, to evolve to UMTS sometime in the future." <<
Editorial Commentary
"The Power Of TDMA-Based Technologies & The 3G Evolution" By: Chris Pearson Executive Vice President, UWCC
tdma-edge.org
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