RE: Comments on draft-ietf-pilc-2.5g3g-10.txt

The distinction between 2.5G and 3G is very absurd and largely marketing 
oriented. A technical draft from IETF should not use 2.5G at all. At least 
not without defining it.

At 02:12 PM 9/4/2002 -0500, Farid Khafizov wrote:

>Hi all,
>I agree with Jayshree's comments. See, for example, today's article from 
>Reuters
><http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020904/telecoms_qualcomm_1.html>http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020904/telecoms_qualcomm_1.html 
>
>supporting the view that no geographical regions should be mentioned in 
>the text:
>
>"CDMA2000 is leading WCDMA by a substantial margin in Japan, which is 
>often described as the main battlefield between the two technologies.
>
>DoCoMo's 3G service had attracted 127,400 users as of the end of July, 
>less than one tenth of 1.64 million subscribers for rival KDDI Corp 
>(Tokyo:9433.T - News), which offers a CDMA2000-based 3G service."
>
>Regards,
>--Farid
>-----Original Message-----  From:   Bharatia, Jayshree 
>[RICH1:2H13:EXCH]  Sent:   Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:57 
>PM  To:     '[email protected]'  Subject:        [pilc] Comments on 
>draft-ietf-pilc-2.5g3g-10.txt
>
>Hello all,
>
>I have the following editorial comments on draft-ietf-pilc-2.5g3g-10.txt: 
>1. In the Introduction section, it is mentioned that "Radio technology for 
>both Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) (Europe, Japan) and cdma2000 (US, South Korea) 
>is based on code division multiple access allowing for higher data rates 
>and more efficient spectrum utilization than 2G systems" In this 
>paragraph, W-CDMA and CDMA technologies are associated with different 
>countries which is misleading since one country can have both W-CDMA and 
>CDMA. Hence, my suggestion is to remove name of countries mentioned in 
>parenthesis. 2. Through out this draft there is a mention of 2.5G which 
>may be just specific to certain wireless technology and not all, e.g. CDMA 
>doesn't have 2.5G.  Instead "pre-3G" term is more appropriate. Thanks, 
>Jayshree



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