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To: mightylakers who wrote (6882)	2/2/2001 8:17:20 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 196546

Lakers, << You seems to make a big deal about 3G spectrum >> I do. So did CITEL, CDG, and QUALCOMM. They gave it one heck of a battle. Anatel gave GSM a leg up in LA, and it gave Nokia a real leg up, because GSM-1800 is their sweet spot. That is where they have real dominance on the network side as well as the handset side. They are week in GSM-1900, although they did deliver the first dual-mode AMPS/GSM phones to the US. Prior to the decision all the Americas were pretty much in synch on spectrum. Decision changed the paradigm. << So, strictly speaking, 3G spectrum is not just restricted to the new spectrum in 2Ghz. >> That is correct. WRC-2000 changed that (great decision, IMO). 806-960 MHz, 1710-1885 MHz and 2500-2690 MHz are the new bands agreed to in June. The original bands are 1885-2025 MHz and 2110-2200 MHz. "All bands globally identified for IMT-2000 have equal status." W-CDMA will initially deliver for the 2GHz spectrum initially specified by WRC in 1992. This is the spectrum that has recently been or will shortly be auctioned off worldwide, and where W-CDMA, and eventually KDDI (fall 2002 target) with cdma2000 will be built out. I am not clear as to when W-CDMA will address the new bands. AWS decision may accelerate this. Not sure. Pretty good representation of the original spectrum here: itu.int - Eric -