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To: quick_thinking who wrote (14806)	9/2/2001 11:06:09 PM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Fron Ben Garrett on Moderated. Nokia can still sell DCCH handsets... ---------- Yep. But a lack of PBCCH/PCCH functionality is not without a price. By all indications, the lack of PBCCH/PCCH functionality will increase network congestion (PBCCH/PCCCH are additional packet control channels). Allocation of limited resources - coordinating the delivery of voice plus data with eight very finite timeslots (less error protection) is, in the very best of conditions, GPRS's Achilles heel. The lack of PBCCH/PCCH will maximize network congestion. With the handful of GPRS subscribers presently on European networks already impacting voice services... and with data users already cut off by voice priority in populated areas, carriers may be less than enthusiastic to exacerbate GPRS's chronic, fundamental limitation. And to top it off, there would be an imminent recall of Nokia's subStandard (pun intended) handsets. Will carriers find this proposition a tempting prospect? No doubt carriers have already studied how to exploit this rather public blunder.... time for a pound of flesh? It seems probable that Nokia will be compelled to offer incentives... Incentives would do wonders for Nokia's already sagging margins. <g> Why is it so hard for Nokia to follow a specification? Can't execute 3GPP specifications. Can't execute 3GPP2 specifications. Think of the carriers contracting with Nokia for 3G services.... Can't be sleeping too well at this point.

To: quick_thinking who wrote (14806)	9/3/2001 4:26:54 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

quick_thinking, KDDI plans to launch 1xRTT services this fall in existing 800 MHz spectrum. 1xRTT currently supports peak data rates of 153 kbps although typical average user rates are considerably lower. Later this year (or early next year) 1xRTT will support peak data rates of 307 kbps typical average user rates that may or may not be proportionally higher. I am under the impression that at least as about this time last year that data transmission rates for the 800 MHz spectrum in Japan were capped as a regulatory matter at 128 kbps and that both NTT DoCoMo and KDDI had petitioned to have the cap on data transmission rates raised. Do you have any knowledge of where this matter is at today? - Eric -