Starts out somewhat well, but then it degenerates
As well as all the usual mistakes
-Motorola already has the functions working in its phone.
Unverified, untested, those two difficult words.
Nokia was the one who first rang the alarm bell,
an alarm all operators agree on, that is, Nokia
is the one "up to speed".
NO network in actual use has the feature activated
and ONE network is anyway nothing.
There has (even) been questions raised if even a "correctly"
implemented system would work, debate on simulations,
lab tests, and finally actual live networks, different
vendors, and maybe especially:
Different implications, more or less, all "correct"
but how do they interact, often "not correctly"
All things which are typical issues when building standards,
the reason there are many stages in the process, this just one of them.
Withdrawing the suggested solution was not a question
"embarassment", but "in the spirit" of nondictatorial
organizations, where progress is gradual and continuous.
etc,etc
Well, obviously BCCH-CCCH is "packet" as that is what
GPRS phones use and will use until the new, additional
(unluckily mandatory and unverifiable) control channel is
activated, not even everywhere at once, but in certain cells, even one and off now and then, dynamically, etc..
And unluckily if one doesn't have these basic things clear
one cannot go into the more difficult.
But it is interesting how "common sense" and regular
ability to read can be dimmed by wet dreams and emotions
replacing them, "wishing it was this or that".
One more, the first writer clearly has no knowledge nor
understanding of how standards are built.
"The Euros are letting Nokia off the hook, it seems to me. Operators have a lot of say-so in these decisions."
Those two sentences together make no sense, especially not
the first while the second is correct.
The next sentence is totally out in orthogonal space:
"It is possible that the operators don't care what they sell."
In at least two orthogonal dimensions, as operators do not
sell phones, phones are bought from the shelf to the
right of the refrigators, a SIM card is inserted and
then the phones start roaming freely (in the free, world).
Another example of lack of understanding open, global
standards.
Ilmarinen
What constantly pops up is something like the "IBM AT"
standard, which is an "industrial defacto standard".
That is, somebody has implemented something, and others
"clone" it, this or that way.
This does not work in (international) telecommuncations, the
whole existence of ITU is to avoid, replace this.
(the lack of this understanding is probably the most
basic source for all misunderstandings??) |
