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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8311)	4/5/2000 4:20:00 PM
From: quartersawyer	Respond to of 13582

<<The GRF is a project of the GSM Association>> Other inclusive groups working toward global roaming include: a dedicated UTRA/IS41 interoperability tech spec group of the 3GPP2; The Operators Harmonization Group; the "Working Party 8F" group of the ITU. The stated objectives would have WCDMA and cdma2000 standards converge and integrate leaving no established 2G systems orphaned. Sounds nice, but probably too complicated at the consumer device level.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8311)	4/7/2000 2:39:00 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 13582

TDMA CDMA roaming. Another story coming out ot the recent GSM Global Roaming Forum in Chicago. totaltele.com An interesting point raised in the article but not yet discussed in this forum; "And although the Forum was created to develop interoperability between GSM and other standards, other inter-standard development work, between CDMA and TDMA networks, for example, could result." IMHO. CDMA TDMA roaming would be very benificial to users in the Western Hemisphere.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8311)	4/10/2000 4:25:00 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

DDI-IDO's cdmaOne Roaming Service to Start in Korea, Hong Kong in April nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Not as flexible as a R-UIM equipped CDMA phone. IMHO. April 10, 2000 (TOKYO) -- DDI Corp.'s DDI Cellular Telephone Group companies and IDO Corp. announced the imminent launch of "GLOBAL PASSPORT," an international roaming service that will enable users of cdmaOne portable phones to use them when traveling outside of Japan. The new service will be the first in Japan to offer international roaming for terrestrial mobile communications. The GLOBAL PASSPORT service, set to start operations April 21, will allow cdmaOne portable phones to be used abroad with the same telephone number as that used in Japan. At first, the international regions covered will be Korea, through Korean telecoms operator Shinsegi Telecom Inc, and Hong Kong, through Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Ltd. The service area will then be expanded to include the United States this summer and Australia from September. There will be no special charges for receiving the service itself, although users will be charged for any actual time they spend using their phone abroad. These charges will be levied not only when the user makes outgoing calls, but also when incoming calls are received. For example, if a user travels to Korea and makes a call back to Japan, then the fee will be 250 yen per minute. If the phone is used to make a call to a number within Korea, then the fee will be 50 yen per minute. The user has to pay a flat fee of 180 yen per minute to receive incoming calls, regardless of where the caller is calling from. (104.98 yen = US$1) In order to make use of GLOBAL PASSPORT, a special type of cdmaOne phone unit, designed to be compatible with the service, is needed. Currently, the only such phone scheduled to appear anytime soon is the cdmaOne C111SA model that will go on sale April 21, the same day as the service launch. (Nikkei Communications)