re: 3G Confusion Reigns
<< To 3G or not to 3G? ... It's absolutely irrelevant to me, a non-issue not worthy of discussion. I don't care where the label falls. >>
Isn't that rather heretical?
How about the mislabel?
Weren't you paying attention to Dr. Jacobs when he wrote a letter last fall to the Chairman of the Science, Technology, Information and Telecommunication Committee of the Korean National Assembly (with similar letters to the ITU, the Ministry, the Carriers et al) informing him (them) that they were guilty of the "mislabeling of CDMA2000 1XRTT [note all caps, sort of like QUALCOM for those that like to shout] in Korea as 2.5G technology. (IS-95B is 2.5G technology and the Korean deployments were the first of any 2.5G technology deployed worldwide)" and "this mislabeling of CDMA2000 has reduced the worldwide benefits to Korea of this great accomplishment and allowed one company in Japan to continue to falsely claim the title of first with 3G despite their repeated delays and performance shortfalls."
I mean so what if it's Release 0. it's the same 1xRTT that we'll deliver someday in Release A that the ITU approved when we "completed it", and Gee were sorry if we confused anybody by substituting DO for 3xMC.
I mean so what if we used to call 1XRTT, an interim step to 3G, and 3XMC 3G, we can change our minds if we want to.
I mean that "one company in Japan", as we keep on telling you, commercially launched a version of WCDMA to a draft version of the ITU approved IMT-2000 standard, and if they can falsely claim that is 3G than we sure as heck can falsely claim that 1XRTT is 3G and don't give me any of that Release 0 malarkey.
I mean those stupidos over in the UWCC have gone so far as to call EDGE. "3G" and to add insult to injury they now call themselves 3GAmericas.
I mean we got people like Cahners calling 1XRTT 2.75G, and we got people lumping 1XRTT under the umbrella of "Next Generation Services".
Now here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna start a website called "3G Today" and we are gonna set people straight once and for all ...
... and now that we have set YOU straight, straighten up and fly right.
LOL!
Now I personally find this just a tad confusing, if not downright comical.
Imagine what the people who attend conferences like the Merrill Lynch Global Communications Conference, think when they see this slide presented by the President and CEO of the company that commercialized 1xRTT ...
>> SKT "CDMA" Migration Path
Generation Standard Introduced Data Speed
- 2G IS-95A January 1996 9.6 kbps
- 2G IS-95B August 1999 64 kbps
- 2.5G 1xRTT October 2000 144 kbps
- 3G 1xEV-DO February 2000 2.4 Mbps
- 3G W-CDMA 2003 Onward
¦R99 384 kbps
¦R4 2 Mbps
¦R5 10 Mbps
... particularly if they just came from another technology conference and saw Dr. Jacob's the Father, or Dr. Jacobs the Son, or Dr. Jacobs the Ghost, carefully explain that IS-95B is 2.5G and 1XRTT (Release 0) is 3G.
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- Eric - |
