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To: Eric L who wrote (16602)	11/16/2001 8:51:25 AM
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To: Eric L who wrote (16602)	11/16/2001 9:27:29 AM
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re: Open Standards for 3G Introperability Robin Hearn (Ovum) compared CDMA2000 carriers' already getting interoperable network gear and devices from multiple vendors to the early days of digital network deployments, when GSM started to become dominant worldwide because of widespread agreement on standards for network gear and devices. "That's how GSM got to be as broad-based as it is..You can't beat market penetration at the end of the day." >> W-CDMA Standards Initiative Gets Started Malcolm Spicer November 16, 2001 The initiative launched this week by major wireless industry players worldwide to create open architecture standards for wideband-CDMA third-generation technologies couldn't have come much later before the W-CDMA camp would be too far behind the CDMA2000 3G proponents. "Given that CDMA 1X is the leading 3G groundbreaker now," W-CDMA technology developers and service providers needed to start cooperating on standards for global interoperability, said Robin Hearn, a senior analyst at Boston-based high-tech market research firm Ovum. CDMA2000 deployments aren't widespread, but are happening and that's more than the W-CDMA folks can say, Hearn added. He compared CDMA2000 carriers' already getting interoperable network gear and devices from multiple vendors to the early days of digital network deployments, when GSM started to become dominant worldwide because of widespread agreement on standards for network gear and devices. "That's how GSM got to be as broad-based as it is," Hearn said. "You can't beat market penetration at the end of the day." Carriers planning W-CDMA networks have no shortage of choices for infrastructure and handset vendors, but each of those vendors so far could be building to different standards. That won't lead to interoperability between networks. "Within their own markets, they were all doing the right thing," Hearn said. "This looks more globally." The initiative members include major service providers AT&T Wireless [AWE], Cingular Wireless, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone [VOD] as well as top technology vendors Motorola [MOT], NEC [NIPNY], Nokia [NOK,] Siemens [SI] and the Sony Ericsson Mobile Phone joint venture. Nokia and NTT DoCoMo already announced a joint development pact based on the standards initiative. That sort of industrial heft should help spur standards development, but also is likely to create in-fighting over what gets approved, Hearn said. "The jury is still out as to whether this agreement produces results," he said. << - Eric -