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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (2546)	10/9/2002 3:00:09 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9255

They key words are "global" as well as the function of the ITU members (operators) supporting this (global) standard. That is, support from operators in US,europe,japan,china,etc on the level of "3G", although that came to include many "substabdards", which then gets into how these are made compatible and how that is supported. Bottom line, (officially) Japan started to "support" a CDMA based 3G standard, europe folllowed and Q, after a long delay, signed the "support" membership paper. Before that the consensus and support for "3G" in terms of the services, this thing which has been so difficult for many media spinners to understand. Ilmarinen To go into the history it goes back to US having a Ma Bell monopoly, while europe had many national monopolies (well, except finland, kind of), the standardization functions in US vs the the CCITT (Consultative Committee..Telegraph,Telephone) for first the european nations. (plus Japan, doing its own NTT stuff) When need for international compatibility became important, 1980s, modems, isdn,fax,etc some important milestones were the transition from 56kbps to 64kbps in terms of voice channels, ISDN, and the disappearance of different Bell-this-and-that plus some other ones to the CCITT V-series (for modems, culminating in the Kflex,etc and then V.90 and V.91) (one driving force the need to send faxes, make modem-connections,etc over both analog and then digital voice-lines) Then (european) CCITT became part of (global,UN) ITU. (but still with sub-national,continental,technology standardization-bodies) On the wireless-radio side additionally the allocation and licensing of frequencyband, specifications for levels, outband stuff,etc and then what to place in those bands. That is, not a "world government" with its own army to punish those who do not obey, nor any global jail, but a "body" for achievieng consensus, with a demand for supporting consensus decisions or get out of the "body", out in the cold, no direct influence anymore.