Slacker,
<< Mr. Esrey of Sprint just said PCS will be upgrading to 307 six months after the 1X launch this summer, AND IT IS SOFTWARE ONLY >>
I was wondering when you were going to make good on your November promise to get back to me on that, in fact I was about to remind you:
The upgrade from to 307 is minor, I will followup with details.
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That will legitimize Sprint's claim that 1xRTT is 3G "because it is an official ITU IMT-2000" standard" (not just because it meets the minimum throughput requirement of 144 kbps peak):
3gpp2.org
As I stated before "Oliver Valente will implement REL A when it is fully commercialized and has gone through full IOT on all his various vendor gear." (and bless him for that) and I should add "with all of PCS's handsets".
Valente stated in November "Sprint expects to make Release A capabilities available by mid-year 2003". If they can improve on it great, but I tend to take a conservative posture on availability of any major new implementation of wireless technology.
You might remember that 12 to 15 months ago I was perhaps the most conservative poster on the Qualcomm threads relative to when 1xRTT would launch in the US (to the accompaniment of various boos and hisses <g>) but even I thought 1xRTT would launch about Thanksgiving and I also naively thought it would launch here with Release A.
Perhaps Esprey is right - I hope he is. I don't think we will see REV A in Sprint this calendar year, however, and I certainly hope we don't have to wait 6 months for nationwide deployment of 1xRTT by PCS and Verizon.
First 3GPP2 has to get over the unfortunate "synch channel" hump. Hopefully that will happen by the end of this month.
PCS is not about to labor through a recall of all the Motorola handsets they have in the field, despite the rants of the head cheerleader on the "no cheerleading" thread.
Forget peak throughput for a moment, there are one heck of a lot of features of Release A particularly as it relates to QoS that are not in Release 0 that will be implemented to the benefit of us users, although it is possible that some of them are now already added to Release 0 as it is being deployed.
BTW: If I find out any card swaps are necessarry I'll be back at ya. <g>
And if I buy a MSM5100 ("Release 0 compliant") based smartphone or modem from Verizon and its not flash upgradeable to 307 kbps, I'll REALLY be back at ya. <ggg>
Never assume anything in mobile wireless till you can feel it, touch it, buy it, and use it.
- Eric - |
