On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Alistair Jeffs wrote:
> I think he said 'most advanced test' although it was a test that was
> delayed and delayed.
Ah, right. Got me on that one. Never mind that the test is not as
advanced as a current production system. Oh well. Another case of
"journalism," I guess.
> the lack of handover from 3G to GSM was a reason for the delay. looks like
> they didn't solve it.
Oh, was that actually a requirement? It sounds rather..difficult.
I think even putting GSM and 3G in a single phone that didn't weigh
a ton would be a pretty good achievement. You might be able to live
without the handover if you had good coverage within the areas that
do have 3G, though I think that FOMA has shown us how hard this
can be.
At any rate, I've appended the response I received.
cjs
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From: Simon Rockman <simon@blah.com>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
Subject: Re: 3G phones - rarer than hen's teeth
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 12:02:55 -0000
I've only been to the IoM so can't really compare. The IoM handsets are not
compatible with Tokyo although they couldn't say why "something to do with
i-mode" was the nearest I got to an answer. They seem to be really on top of
both radio planning and billing, but as far as services are concerend I
suspect everyone will have to learn from hutch 3G.
Simon
Received on Sun Mar 24 07:45:22 2002