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To: foundation who wrote (4762)11/19/2000 7:04:59 PM
From: Eric L  Respond to of 196952
 
Ben,

<< You have agreed in past that NTT's wCDMA will debut in May (well, you think it will debut - I'm far less sure) >>

All press keeps saying that.

<< at max 64kbs - 64kbs is embarrassingly below 3G specifications >>

The 64 kbps I have not seen quoted in any (more or less) reliable source. I heard (or saw) very early in the summer that they were bumping the wall at around 64 kbps in mobile handsets. I heard (not saw) towards Labor Day that they had overcome that barrier.

I have no idea how fast terminals will be when they launch the commercial trial.

Keeping track of things with DoCoMo is a little difficult because there are 2 dates being referred to by various people. One is the end of May commercial trial, and one is the commercial launch for end of year. DoCoMo has not made a lot of public comment about either.

There are occasional bits and pieces in news releases out of Japan, but not much.

If DoCoMo terminals perform initially at 64 kbps Its not going to embarrass me. Who will it embarrass?

How much bandwidth is Sprint PCS and Verizon going to give us when they release 1xMC, and what are they going to charge us?

I don't know the answer to that, and neither do you. Watch and wait, live and learn.

Will you be embarrassed if SKT 1xMC terminals have an average user throughput of 64 kbps? I will not be. Looking forward to someone reviewing the experience. I'll even take a press release.

- Eric -