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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (21839)	8/20/2002 6:33:46 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

So that you may unconfuse yourself, this is exactly what the DB analysts Seybold was allowed to quote had to say. No disingenuous grins, all text: Further, all of our research and discussions with industry contacts suggest that those operators who initially deploy Release ’99 of the 3GPP standard, including EDGE, will require an entirely new core network (perhaps a new RAN as well) if they want to offer Release 5 services (real-time multimedia services, VoIP). The implication is that U.S. operators who are deploying GPRS today and EDGE next year will have to replace most of their network to deliver real-time voice services on EDGE. [Roood Neeeelson, did you read this?] We also point out that the 3GPPhas not yet frozen the Release 5 specification, let alone completed the Change Request process, design work or interoperability testing. Release 5 is still several years from being commercially available and is not yet a proven technology. [Well, it's frozen now, but that doesn't change things] Some readers may be a bit confused about the some of the terms we have introduced so far. As we discuss in our 3G report, the 3GPP is the standards board that is developing the UMTS standard, which is actually comprised of multiple releases (Release ’99, Release 4, Release 5 and Release 6). The 3GPP2 is the CDMA2000 standards board. CDMA2000 is comprised of CDMA2000 1X, 1xEV-DO and 1xEV-DV. Read our report for a more detailed explanation. With respect to EDGE, the paper does correctly point out that most of the new GSM/GPRS networks being deployed today are EDGE capable. What the paper fails to mention is that these networks are EDGE Release '99 capable and not most likely not EDGE Release 5 capable. The paper also does not give any indication when EDGE handsets will become available or how much processing power is required in the handset to support VoIP. We submitted the question, but it was not answered.