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To: Eric L who wrote (12736)	6/18/2001 12:13:28 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

re: Japan 3G (FOMA, and KDDI) Study Group on Security and Reliability >> IMT-2000 Study Group to be set-up in Japan June 18, 2001 3G Newsroom The Japanese Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications on June 18 said it is to set up a study group on the security and reliability of the 3G wireless system. The study group will work out measures for enhancing the stability of the IMT-2000 3G mobile telecommunications networks and for ensuring security of the information provided through the networks, among other measures. The ministry plans to create, on the basis of the discussions by the study group, guidelines for establishing and managing the network facilities in October 2001, when NTT DoCoMo starts its full-scale IMT-2000 service, FOMA, and KDDI launches its full-fledged IMT-2000 service using the "cdmaOne 1x" system. The ministry intends to include the guidelines in the "standards for secure and reliable info-communications," which it has been managing since 1987. The ministry, however, said it is difficult to include in the guidelines numerical targets, such as the number of servers for the backup system, because the guidelines the study group will create have no binding power. << - Eric -

To: Eric L who wrote (12736)	6/18/2001 12:13:33 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

re: WCDMA v. cdma2000 Comparative Cost - Singapore Wondering if there was an RFI or RFP this is based on? Neil Montefiore of MobileOne Singapore [cdmaOne] ... around S$500million to deploy WCDMA system compared with S$1billion with cdma2000. >> cdma2000 Cost More to Deploy than WCDMA in Singapore June 17, 2001 3G Newsroom MobileOne gave Qualcomm a big blow earlier this week, when it revealed it was scrapping its 2G CdmaOne network in favour of the European GSM standard for 3G migration. According to Mr Neil Montefiore, Chief Executive Officer of MobileOne in Singapore, the deployment of WCDMA 3G platform would be S$500 million cheaper than if it chose the CDMA2000 standard in Singapore. It had planned to drop the CDMA network even before the 3G auction was held early this year. He shocked the telecom industry by announcing it would only cost MobileOne around S$500million to deploy WCDMA system compared with S$1billion with cdma2000. Montefiore said the company was experiencing many problems with CDMA network and choice in favour to switch to WCDMA. He also believed there would be much more vendors supporting the European adopted UMTS standard. Charles Levine, president of Sprint PCS, in favour of Cdma2000 said, "From what we've seen from a spectrum requirement, time to implement, cost and operating advantages, CDMA2000 is the way to go." Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDMA Development Group, a group promoting CDMA technology said the CDMA standard has the flexibility to allow it to work on any infrastructure spectrum that an existing GSM or TDMA uses with backward compatibility. << - Eric -