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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (4091)	3/2/2000 3:17:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 5195

more on NOK.... (from Tero on the NOK threads) Everybody talks a lot about W-CDMA for strategic reasons. That's why NTT-DoCoMo is aggressively hyping itself as the world leader in W-CDMA, even as their launch schedule keeps slipping into future. But the operators are budgeting GPRS and EDGE spending - that's where the infrastructure money is flowing right now. So it seems that Nokia is highlighting the W-CDMA in PR material, just like every other manufacturer... but what they're actually shipping is GPRS and EDGE. Of course, if the network gear has slots for W-CDMA upgrade modules, it can be billed as "W-CDMA ready". But the 2001 handsets, mobile content, etc. are being designed for GPRS right now. With current information, it's impossible to say whether W-CDMA products will start shipping in volume in 2002 or 2005. If it's the latter, all the companies that have based their strategies on skipping GPRS and EDGE will be well and thoroughly screwed. So much for the world conquest of NEC and Mitsubishi.

To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (4091)	3/2/2000 11:31:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 5195

Timeline for 3G rollout. Excerpt from : stockhouse.ca StockHouse: The last thing I wanted to ask you about is the timeline for 3G communications. It seems to be edging closer and closer, as companies such as Motorola announce their GPRS product. Is 3G close on the horizon, or just another hype-filled mirage? Seybold: In the US, it's going to be very slow to come. It's already being deployed in Japan, but it's not the same standard as in Europe. I see it happening in Japan, Asia, in Europe. Dewey: If you want to be aggressive in the terminology, Qualcomm calls it CDMA 2000, 1X, third generation. They're putting that in, probably, by the end of this year. It's really a semantics game. Seybold: If a data rate of 144 Kb per second per cell site is considered 3G, then it's going to happen next year. If 3G is 384 Kb and above, then we're still three, four years away. If you say it's the standard that everybody's moving to and when is that standard going to happen, it's three years or more away.... Mark MeWurdz