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USTR Critical Of Japanese TD-CDMA Licensing
News for nerds writes "Yahoo Asia reports that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said in its annual report that the Japanese government has so far refused to issue experimental licenses to certain U.S. companies to test the new TD-CDMA technology. It attacks China and S. Korea along the line. The funny thing is, according to Impress Internet Watch, the Japanese government states that no U.S. companies had actually applied for the license so far. ITmedia also reports the Japanese government didn't deny foreign application, while criticizing the government for too narrow bandwidth of TD-CDMA that can be monopolized easily. Is this the precursor of another wave of pressure onto technology from Japan?"
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* Topic is 'http://www.tekkenzaibatsu.com/forums/showthread.p hp?s=&postid=1527925#post1527925 : everyone give your 0.00c'
* Set by SirCane on Tue Apr 06 15:57:26
<l0de> "Mom, I can't sleep would you mind if I get in bed with you?
<l0de> I have virus!
<l0de> She was wearing a baby doll semi-see through nightie, and was embarrassed to let me in bed with her.
<subt-L> haha.. this is a fucking crazy virus..
<l0de> I can't type this fast!
<l0de> However she remembered how I had let her sleep with me when she needed to.
<l0de> Oh my god.
<l0de> "Sure John, it's a big bed," she said in an uncertain tone.
<l0de> "Mom, would you mind if I snuggle a little with you.
<l0de> I just feel kind of sad tonight, I need you close to me."
is this about? I can't make head or tail of that paragraph.
That's it - this means war!
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Most of these cellphone acronyms go in one ear and out the other, but I thought the "new" thing was GSM. Weren't TDMA and CDMA on their way out?
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Ok.
Lawrence Lessig has quite a convincing argument for 'freeing' spectrum- in short (and not giving it the justice it deserves- he says it better in 'The Future of Ideas'), a lack of regulation (both legal and 'structural' regulation- i.e. the internet isn't structurally regulated whereas the phone system is, being centrally regulated) worked absolute wonders for the Internet. If the internet wasn't end-to-end and open, it'd be a shadow of what it is now.
So, basically, he believes that the spectrum is a medium which could be much like the internet, given protocols and standards that allowed things to connect using it.
As something somewhat like the internet would be much more useful than something like the phone system in the long run, I think the real news here, rather than there being a US-Japan spectrum spat, is that countries are squabbling over how to miserly regulate the spectrum in the first place.
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could anyone give a heads up for people who dont know what TD-CDMA licensing is? cmon, we all want to be too lazy to RTFA.
Is America going to be the leader and develop high quality technology that other countries can come begging for, or is it going to sit at Japan's doorstep begging for scraps?
Japan must feel like how I did in Civ2. I was always so far ahead of the rest of the nations because I focused on developing technology while the rest of the world was more interested in building up their militaries.
I have been pwned because my
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I seem to recall a similar debate over the U.S.'s attempt to push the use of CDMA at the expense of of GSM in Iraq.
The words pot and kettle come to mind
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This just in from Japan:
"All your CDMA are belong to us."
It's kind of sad that there are still immature people around who equate drunkenness with fun (or sex with love for that matter). Why don't you grow up?
A lot of GSM folks champion that standard, and it has done well in becoming "the" standard in Europe, Africa and Asia, but technnologically, CDMA is superior technically - for example, it has higher data transfer capacity and has lower radiation levels. It is a pity that such a huge infrastructure based on GSM exists, but I think that a move towards CDMA can only be a good thing.
If there won't be any US installations or manufacturers then this is a lot of hot air!
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Has anyone noticed that USTR is only 1 place in the alphabet different to USSR ?
CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access. Here the entire allowed frequency spectrum is used (actually a band) by every user. The idea (in simple terms) is to send out signals that are coded with each user's individual (and unique) code so that only that user can decode it to get meaningful information, everyone else sees that information as noise. You don't need different frequencies in adjacent cells as in traditional cellphone technology (TDMA).
GSM: Global System for Mobile communications - an advanced technology based on TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access). Here you need different frequencies in adjacent cells. Usually a cluster of cells is used with each cell operating at a different frequency.
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This is like complaints from some US car companies that their cars didn't sell well in Japan. But they didn't notice that they drive on the left side of the road in Japan, and they tried to sell regular US models...
As I understand it, CDMA costs about 10% of what GSM costs in terms of towers, switches and other related infrastructure. This is a major reason why the US is such a "fan" of CDMA (ignoring for a moment the obvious "MADE IN USA" aspect of US support). That said, the sound quality of CDMA, particularly with respect to transmission delays, is horrible when compared with GSM. Mobile telephones in GSM areas just sound much, much more like land-line telephones than CDMA ones.
CDMA may be a marvelous technology, but it has the unfortunate liability that the service that it delivers to the customer is ridiculously second-rate when compared with GSM. I have used cell phones in the US, and I must say that they are uniformly awful when compared with the GSM system in Europe, for example.
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so basically, creating open and free standard is "regulating"??
also, remember that hardware manufactores must choose a standard and stick to it. you _need_ standards here, unlike the software world when you just install the new drivers when they come and are set to go...
CDMA sucks big ones.
GSM is the way to go, obviously.
CDMA is horribly US centric, except for other isolated networks (south korea and Australia - some places) no one uses CDMA.
It's a dead donkey folks, this parrot is no more.
And for the folks who say the biggest carrier in the US is CDMA, don't forget the cingular - at&t merger - this puts GSM as your #1.
Go GSM.
I suppose the French must be pleased, since originally GSM meant groupe system mobile, or some other equally francophile acronym.
All you have to do is pick up a GSM handset and LISTEN to the sound quality, it has much better frequency response than CDMA. Granted CDMA crams more calls onto the same bandwidth, but at quality loss. Your average verizon customer can't tell though, but then again, has no use for bluetooth either, and an apparent disregard for travelling overseas.
Japan (to it's own expense) also has a system that is not compatible with anything else. Nice bandwidth, but only works in Japan. Bummer.
My phone works in 120 countries world wide. I've been all over this planet of ours and guess what, my 408 number has worked everywhere. From the deepths of India, through Europe and on several networks in Beijing.
The US needs to get with the plot here.
Qualcomm needs to rollover and die, finally.
It is the fact that GSM stresses interoperability and the scope of the spec have been major reasons for its success.
That losers such as yourself make themselves feel superior by pointing out the immaturity of others.
Why don't you get a life?
Who the hell is this Steven J. Searle and why would anybody take his opinion seriously? Some of his writings are so incredible off base it's insane. Like the US has been saying in the past that the lack of wide spread broad band internet connections is the reason for the extended Japanese recession, give me a break! It's been said by so many ppl that the issue with the Japanese economy has to do with the banking system carrying far too much debt to the point that they no longer can loan money is the core issue. It should obvious to anybody that paid attention in high school that if a banking system can not lend money you can not create wealth. I also love how he references his own opinions, he adds some [#] tag and you would expect a reference right, well when you scroll down you get some more of this dudes opinion, wow I wish that worked for me :P
What the US is pushing is a CDMA system that doesn't communicate with anything else, which is being pushed by Qualcomm (and their senators). CDMA should provide a much better overall quality and spectrum of possible services, unfortunately in the US it doesn't. This is becase the air spec is just a small part of it.
The fun thing is that GSM Phase 3 means that some Qualcomm poatents must be licensed so they are still being paid for the technology.
Incidentally, in many parts of the world straight TDMA GSM gives better quality than land-lines because of the digital nature of the network.
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Does this make it harder for the CIA & other assorted spooks to tap your allies phone's.
Repeat after me America doesn't own the world.
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I recall that CDMA phones do not have SIM cards and the subscriber number is hardwired into the phone.
Also if you save all your phone numbers on the SIM card, moving to a new phone is as easy as moving your SIM card to the new phone (although with the added functionality of handset phonebooks, this is become less popular).
Considering the effort the US put down on preventing distribution of PGP it serves them right...
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When yozu are looking at the financial only, yes CDMA is superuior. But if you look at the quality only, then , sorry but my experience with CDMA was very poor... This is kind of a give-take. I guess that all considered both system are equivalent (none superior).
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At a time when the US and Europe were being sold WAP technology, the Japanese developed imode, and gained around 30m users in a couple of short years.
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WAP never sold well, and people were never convinced of it's merits. End of story - it was superceeded by 3G and ahem, 2.5G. Kind of.
The fact was that imode could never be sold in Europe because the WAP consortium had outlawed packet switching technologies with respective governments' help. Thus the infrastructure was labelled expensive and proprietary (which is exactly what WAP was anyway), and was prevented from being implemented.
The WAP consortium was formed with the expressed purpose of keeping Japanese technology out of Europe and the US, and so we can see the same thing happening here - the Japanese develop a superior technology, so US and European carriers seek to refuse it entry to the market.
Worth remembering next time you go into a mobile phone shop and think "Why hasn't the technology here improved much in the last 5 years?"
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It's a different generation.
... but not to the extent some of the early propaganda pretended it would be, CDMA was hopelessly overhyped.
It is probably even superior to FDMA/TDMA competitors in it's same generation
Why must you americans always fuck around with your own shit instead of using the global standards for telecommunication that exists. First it was TDMA/CDMA vs GSM and now its TD-CDMA vs W-CDMA.
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Yep, there is much more overhead in GSM because it does more. Qualcomm frankly make me sick because although they developed CDMA for mobile equipment and promoted it aggressively, they forgot that an air-protocol doesn't make a complete system. Implement a fraction of the protocol and everything is faster, but its better not to switch cells mid-call!!!
As for 'doing the European thing', thats called interoperability, as the rest of the world uses it too. It may be unimportant in the US where only 10% of people have passports but many in the rest of the world do travel.
The reason why I'm sick of this is that I'm aware of an incident where the US threatened to pull a World Bank loan if the country didn't admit a CDMA system which was 100% incompatible with its neighbours.
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What I like is that although roaming can cost serious money (20% of outgoing call costs), it is often possible to buy a local SIM card and use the system at local rates. You can then setup a redirect from your old number to the new local number.
First of all, I will agree taht policing the world is stupid. However, I also believe that the rest of the world is irrelevant except as a market for goods that should be produced here and shipped abroad. importing crap is stupid. importing european luxory items is ok.
however, over 20,000 people died in one day invading Normandy. less than 800 of died in over a year in Iraq. When did this county become so pussy about death? Also, al-Sadr committed murder. An Iraqi court issued a warrent for his arrest. This is known as the rule of law. On the topic of the newspaper, Iraq has no first amendment protection, so shutting down subversive propoganda is OK.
Also, why vote anyone but bush? You mean Kerry, don't you? Democrats are lieing sneeks bent on selling out American soverignty to the UN and other such Marxist-Leninist organizations. I am not voting for Bush, but not because I dislike Bush, but rather because I like my party's candidate. Why not try voting for who you like rather than just voting agaisnt who you don't?
Personally, I think we should pull our troops out and carpet nuke the entire middle east, plus afganistan and pakistan, and north africa. I hate Islam and think we need to finish the crussades.
However, why am I against the war? Because congress did not declare war. They must do so. There is no other constitutional means for the deployment of troops. Also, a standing army is unconstitutional, plus in blatant opposition to the writings of the founding fathers. We have a 2nd amendment for a reason -- protecting ourselves, property, and state. We do not need a standing army, but rather to call up the militia if we need to fight. We can have as many Marines as we want, though, because they are Department of the Navy, and the Navy is constitutional.
Further, al-Sadr is funded by Iran. He is a terrorist fundamentalist and he needs to be stoped before he turns into another bin laden. you, sir, hate America and are a seditionist. Please go fuck yourself, hippie.
The WAP consortium was only seeking a way to get html down a low-bandwith traditional style connection as that is what is available in most of Europe. GPRS (already deployed) and later UMTS make this redundant.
The bulk of Cingular's network is not yet GSM; they're planning on rolling that out, but it pales in comparison to their TDMA network (I should know, I use Cingular).
As to your other point; CDMA horrible? They explain the 500kb/s data throughput that it gets in the Washington DC area.
GSM is a joke for data transfer, and data transfer in the long term will be significantly more important than voice.
Voice is for giggly teenagers.
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As a standard overall, GSM is better due to things like the SIM card which let you switch phones easily.
I thought most mobile phone service providers tied the SIM card to the phone for business model reasons. If nobody implements this SIM swapping, what good is it?
In the long run the biggest cost involved is the number of already-deployed sites and phones that are using the older standard. I remember when we got our first taste of GSM it was a painful switchover from AMPS. Coverage was poor and sites were often overloaded.
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If you believed that Iraq would be groovy, you'll believe that Japan is keeping the US tech sector down with these fake TD-CDMA "obstructions". The only skill BushCo has got is political scams. The sooner they're out of the way, the sooner we can get a manager in office who won't stick his monkey finger into the business of engineers and business developers.
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I hear it on this thread, but I haven't seen it. What does GSM that CDMA doesn't to make it worth the 10% higher overhead?
I've used all the major systems in the US, and except for coverage issues, there is virtually no difference between the services. The only notable difference I have seen is that GSM doesn't send you the time OTA and thus you have to set the time on your phone.
I have seen nothing that GSM does that CDMA doesn't.
So what is the overhead good for?