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To: foundation who wrote (8299)	11/27/2000 5:28:47 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

<< 3GSM? >> You rang? <ggg> How's your horse doin today? Heard it was sick. <g> >> Ericsson Sees 3G Phone Sales In Japan In Late 2001 Nov 27, 2000 Reuters Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said on Monday it expected its third generation (3G) mobile phones to be sold in Japan in volume in the autumn of 2001. "Ericsson will offer terminals in Japan when 3G rolls out during autumn of 2001," Program Manager for Strategic New Business Anna Hultman told a news briefing. Japan is an important market for next generation telephony because of the huge popularity of its I-mode standard, a more sophisticated version of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) used in Europe. Ericsson, the world's biggest producer of networks that enable mobile phones to communicate with each other, will start installing a 3G network in Japan in May next year, Hultman said. With data transmission speeds much higher than over fixed lines now, third generation mobile telephony (3G) will enable mobile phone users to stay permanently connected to the Internet and see live video and advanced graphics on handsets. Ericsson is also the world's third biggest mobile handset maker after Nokia and Motorola , although unlike its rivals, the handset business is making a large loss and is not expected to return to profit until 2002. Europe will have to wait until the beginning of 2002 for third generation handsets from Ericsson but when they come out, they will also work with the current popular second generation telephony GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), Hultman said. Ericsson expects that in 2003 more people will surf the Internet with their mobile phones than through fixed line connections, and that by 2005 there will be one billion mobile Internet users. << Whose chipset for the Japan Jobbies? QCOM's will work. Single mode. - Eric -

To: foundation who wrote (8299)	11/28/2000 10:10:37 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Ben, << 3GSM? >> Catchy isn't it? Did you expect that GSMA would go away in 2004 when 3G3 starts to proliferate, or that it would rename itself WCDMAA? With 1 billion subscribers by 2005 this is somewhat unlikely, and I'm not sure that "harmonization" stretches that far.. Just as Dr. Jacobs has a problem saying SIM or USIM (because these items have so long been a distinguishing characteristic of GSM) and prefers R-UIM, I think that Chris Gent, Jim Healy, Juan Carlos Jil, Jim Murrell, George Schmitt, Gretel Hoffman, and John Stanton might likewise choke on "WCDMAA". You heard it first from John. Presumably you are aware of John and his wife Gretel's background, and are aware that John is not a Perry type (although it looks like he is being nicely creative here). They have made some remarkable contributions to GSMNA, the GSM MoU, and GSMA (as has Perry to CDG, I might add). Any comments on "GRX". To me that was the most interesting part of the comments I excerpted from John's article. Global Roaming, unfortunately, remains the "Achilles heel" of CDMA. Global Roaming goes way beyond SIM/R-UIM "dual mode". Global Roaming is not just about voice in the 2.5G and 3G Voice and Data eras that are dawning. When SKT had it's evolved network architecture posted on the CDG website in April, did you happen to catch the term Global Roaming there in relation to the GSM network it plans to add for 3G3 services in 3G spectrum? Meantime, evidently your horse has recovered. <g> I am most relieved. Happens to everybody in Japan I guess. Now this is not a reflection on CDMA, and KDDI's outages have been nowhere as frequent as DoCoMo's, but it does flag the issue of "data congestion", that all networks providing wireless data are going to face. It probably goes well beyond the capacity of the wireless pipe, and directly to server overload, which has accounted for many of 'i-modes's numerous (approaching 50) outages, and the several by KDDI. Sorry no link. This happened yesterday. >> KDDI Mobile Internet Service Disrupted Service to users of the mobile telephone Internet service of Japan's second biggest telecoms firm DDI, better known as KDDI, was disrupted for more than 13 hours, domestic media quoted company officials as saying. The glitch hit the EZweb Internet service and PacketOne high-speed data transmission service of KDDI mobile phone affiliates, the officials said, adding this affected 2.14 million subscribers in 34 of Japan's 47 prefectures. Normal phone calls were not affected, officials said. The trouble occurred due to data congestion at one network system of KDDI, Kyodo said. KDDI officials were not available for comment on the media reports. KDDI said last week it expects its mobile phone subscribers to grow by only 960,000 in the next six months to 15 million, substantially lower than rival NTT DoCoMo's forecast of a total 35 million subscribers by the end of March, a rise of 2.5 million. DoCoMo's popular i-mode mobile telephone Internet service has been disrupted several times this year due to capacity problems. << PS: I'll take the 960,000 in 6 months. That is not bad growth by any stretch of anybodies imagination. - Eric -

To: foundation who wrote (8299)	12/16/2000 11:34:42 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

Re: 3GSM << 3GSM? >> Further comments from John Hoffman: >> Now for a personal apology. Last month I used the term 3GSM and said something to the effect that for those less informed, 3GSM = UMTS. I was incorrect in using the 3GSM term. As punishment I received 100 lashes of pasta during my holiday. Some history. At Plenary 41 it was agreed to use the terms 2g GSM and 3g GSM. At Plenary 43, HQ was tasked to move these matters forward and a Marketing Advisory Panel was announced. I mistakenly believed that 3GSM had been agreed as the "official GSMA" term for the third generation evolution of the GSM platform. It was not and I stand corrected. The 3GSM term was debated during Plenary 44 during a meeting of the Marketing Advisory Panel. Although I did not attend, I am told the discussion was lively and divided. A paper titled, GSM Evolution Promotion, PL Doc 226/00 by Kari Marttinen, Vice Chair of ISG was tabled during Plenary and the discussion was passionate on both sides of the 3GSM issue. Some in favor of formally adopting the term 3GSM as "3GSM is the TOTAL BUSINESS SOLUTION with UMTS being the underlying technology." Others were as passionately opposed favoring the term UMTS. Plenary Delegates were asked to approve the term 3GSM to replace the previously agreed 3g GSM, however consensus was not reached. A formal vote was called by the Chair and although 3GSM was favored by greater than 50% of the weighted votes, the measure did not carry as the change was considered a strategic change and required a higher approval rate. The Chair stated that the matter would be put to a formal vote by the full GSMA membership. So look for further news on the InfoCentre... Again, my sincere apology for advocating the 3GSM term even though it is my personal preference for the next phase of our business. << - Eric -