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To: carranza2 who wrote (26091)	8/26/2002 7:03:57 PM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196692

But what is R 6? <ggg>

To: carranza2 who wrote (26091)	8/26/2002 8:16:06 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196692

c2 << analysis by DeutscheBank concerning, among other things, its belief that implementation of wCDMA R 6 would require wholesale forklift changes in infra. >> Actually, they were referring to Release 5 and they were unaware of the fact that 'R5' had been frozen a month before their paper at Plenary #16 ("We also point out that the 3GPP has not yet frozen the Release 5 specification"). Specifically what they stated was this; 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. ... 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. ... WCDMA ... is an entirely new technology that may even require an additional swap out of equipment to support Release 5 of the standard. This was the single reference to Release 6. The paper CDMA2000 1xEV-DV was not even mentioned while Release 6 of the UMTS/WCDMA standard was discussed at least two times. The 3GPP has barely even begun determining what functionality to include in this release. - Eric -

To: carranza2 who wrote (26091)	8/27/2002 10:42:47 AM
From: amseybold	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196692

First of all Nokia did try and refute the article--but they failed badly--and I have seen the work that has been done by others that add to the vailidty of the work--when it comes to WCDMA technology--any of it--the issue does not appear to be pricing of the equipment or infrastructure it appears to be the fact that European operators are still believing what Nokia and others are telling them--the technology is NOT ready for prime time--and won't be for a while--a while being several years