You don't understand the text! I thought not understanding was my job.
I'll try to make myself clear. Bear with me.
If GPRS phones with only BCCH/CCCH channels are used in a GPRS network that one day, months from now, activates PBCCH/PCCCH functions then, as you say, possible disaster.
Agreed?
If so, why would any operator want to use phones with only BCCH/CCCH (no "Ps") when he knows he will eventually install the "P"? To risk disaster? That is obviously not the answer.
Here I'm lost, although trying to figure out "they" and
"the functions", I would assume something else than
what "they" seem to refer to:
Sorry for the lack of transparency in the prose.
They = non "P" handsets.
"The functions" = the "P" functions.
My, and many other's point, operator consensus, has been that P-control channel handsets cannot be "guaranteed"
to work the (future) P-control channel cells.
Reason being, no one except MOT, apparently, has done the work. What has been going on at Nokia during the last few months?
Question: If the Nokia non-"P" version is used, is it still GPRS? Does the packet nature of the service still exist if there is no "P"?
Another question: Why doesn't Nokia simply delay the sale of GPRS handsets until it figures out how to "P"? I think I remember you harping about how Nokia doesn't rush into things, waits until the technology and standards are fixed and robust, etc. No wine before it's time, so to speak. Seems like "P-eeing" is an exception to this corporate byword. But I certainly understand how Nokia has to absolutely, positively sell some sort of GPRS handsets this Fall, or risk being skewered in the marketplace.
Nokia needs to learn how to "P". |
