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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (98530)	4/30/2001 10:37:04 AM
From: Getch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

>>I was amazed a couple of years back when I was at a 3G testing centre (somewhere in Europe?!?) and the manufacturer who was conducting these trials asked for a certain Japanese manufacturer to turn up....and they did turn up with a very small fully functioning WCDMA handset.<< If, as you say, there have been fully functional Japanese WCDMA handsets available for a couple of years, what do you see as the main reasons for DoCoMo's delay in their May launch? It was widely reported that only 2 of 11 handset developers were able to have phones ready, and that handset functionality is one of the main delays, is that not true?

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (98530)	4/30/2001 10:42:30 AM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

Could it be that NOK understands that the basestations will have to be populated by 50% more in order to acheive the same handoff performance as CDMA2000 AND GSM to overcome the asynch handoff problem, and they are just paying upfront to give away the equipment to make up the shortfall? There may be handsets, but if the basic system is not installed, then how do you operate it? And a handset built wihtout a standard is a test prototype, so exactly what are they testing against?