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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (120057)	6/7/2002 8:00:15 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 152472

Asia will need to turn its fractured image of 3G's future into a hard reality. Maybe, this will help them (or at least Emma) ... qualcomm.com

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (120057)	6/8/2002 7:38:41 AM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 152472

World Cup calls jam Japanese mobile phones 07 June, 2002 13:05 GMT+08:00 By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Fans of Japan's national soccer team jammed mobile phone connections on Friday as thousands of calls flooded in for unsold tickets to the squad's first-round World Cup match against Russia this weekend. Japanese mobile phone companies NTT DoCoMo Inc and J-Phone Corp said many customers could not make calls from around noon (0300 GMT) due to heavy traffic. NTT East Corp said two million people had tried to call in a space of three minutes. "A surge in phone calls for World Cup tickets has forced us to implement nationwide restrictions (on calls)," said a spokesman for DoCoMo, Japan's dominant mobile carrier with 41 million mobile subscribers. DoCoMo started blocking calls to prevent the sudden surge in phone usage from wreaking yet more serious damage to its communications system, the spokesman said. Japanese mobile phone carriers impose similar restrictions on New Year's day to keep the telephone system from being flooded with New Year greetings calls. Japanese soccer World Cup organisers said the 750 extra tickets for the Japan-Russia match on Sunday in Yokohama sold out in 20 minutes. Ticket muddles have left fans unable to obtain tickets although swathes of seats have been empty at stadiums. The organisers have decided to take charge of selling half of the remaining first-round tickets over the telephone, while football organising body FIFA continues to offer the rest over the Internet. NTT DoCoMo Inc, provider of the innovative Internet-enabled i-mode mobile phone, had said last month it would limit the use of mobile phones in and around World Cup soccer stadiums during games. But there have been no reports yet of overloading around the matches. The company said it would reduce mobile phone traffic by up to 87.5 percent in and around the stadiums to deal with an expected surge in mobile phone calls. DoCoMo has increased the number of base stations around the 10 stadiums in Japan but intends to put priority on system stability, officials have said. KDDI Corp., the operator of Japan's number two mobile phone service "au", and the J-Phone group of Japan Telecom Co. had also said they were boosting capability of base stations around the stadiums, but had no plans to limit usage. asia.reuters.com

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (120057)	6/8/2002 10:13:43 AM
From: qveauriche	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

Emma Kelly of the BBC travels from the epicenter of the atomic blast inflicted upon European wireless because of its flirtation with WCDMA to the one place in the world where 3g has been a whopping commercial success due to the utilization of 1x, and she prattles over the pathetic plight of Asian wireless. "The poor blokes. They can't roam." As if news of imminent multi-mode chips had not made its way to the BBC. Do these idiots know yet that we landed on the moon? Then she tells us that Europe is going WCDMA so as to avoid over-reliance on QCOM, which, she says "controls the patents for CDMA 2000." Thus implying that they don't control the patents for for WCDMA. What a brain fart. Like, was she just not at work the day the Nokia license agreement was announced? You know whats really pathetic about the whole thing. I think she really believes what she's written. In spite of how much they love to lecture the US about how worldly they are, even at this late hour they can't see what is happening all around them.That its already risen up and kicked European wireless in the ass. And that its about to kick European wireless even harder. Its as if what happens "around" Europe simply doesn't matter. It only matters what happens within Europe. Europe has chosen WCDMA, so therefore the world will choose WCDMA. Its as they look at the world through the eyes of Ptolemy, with Europe in the center and the rest of the world revolving, and genuflecting, around it. So she goes to Asia and experiences Asian wireless and see's nothing but problems. She muses that, though unlikely, a few Europeans may be fascinated by the WCDMA display booths. She can't imagine that they might at all even notice the up and running 1X networks, except to feel pity for the Asians for setting them up to begin with. Absolutely freakin' amazing. Rule Britannia, my ass.