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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (33333)	3/10/2003 5:19:46 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 196722

Trevor, << If the core networks protocols are standardized what's the need for additional standards? Do you foresee standards for the method of conversion? >> In actuality, probably not, although 3GPP2 is a little different than 3GPP in that they have all these ancillary standards that exist outside of formal standards releases whereas 3GPP standards are a compilation of a wide range of specifications encompassed within the Releases without all the flotsam and jetsam bobbing around. Essentially the applicable standards on the 3GPP side are R4 and to a greater degree R5 (for both GSM/EDGE and 3GSM) and eventually Release 6, and on the 3GPP2 side Release B and to a greater degree Release C and eventually release D and inputs that come out of harmonization workshops. I think it is important to realize that neither Release 5 or Release C are mature standards All this does get a bit comical since we haven't seen either CDMA Release A commercially implemented, still haven't seen GSM Release 99 commercially implemented, and we'll have to wait at least till this fall to see any CDMA commercial implementation in IMT-2000 core spectrum. IS-833 is probably totally obsolete. Nothing more than a learning exercise and of course what will be trialed in phases in China or elsewhere as the "GSM1X Solution" makes what was briefly trialed in Newbury in fall of 97 look positively archaic. - Eric -