> In what sense interesting? I'll agree that much of the basic technology for
> 3G is coming out of these organizations, but the 2G systems used in Japan
> are entirely homegrown. Across the board the systems introduced in Japan
> have been far ahead of anything else introduced elsewhere for the last ten
> years.
IMO (and in the opinion of a slowly growing number of others), 3G will never
be "ubiquitous broadband wireless" because it's missing a substantial
portion of the "broad" (in other words, most of the designs are fairly
limited in their aggregate bandwidth).
Of course, others would argue that things like 802.11* will never be
"ubiquitous broadband wireless" because it's missing the "ubiquitous".
Certainly it currently lacks the ability to deal with roaming at 70 mph.
And I want networking in my car...
The future aside, Japan has clearly strongly embraced 2G systems and is
certainly doing interesting work there.
Alas, oftentimes I mostly think that 3G is something of a vastly overhyped
potential dead-end (how's that for a lot of indecisive modifiers?).
Especially for somewhere like Japan where the density just begs for higher
throughput systems and mass transit allows your network to roam with you.
> If you are relying on translated articles to make your judgment, you are
> wasting your time. Government documents are not translated on a timely
> basis, nor are they current even when first published in Japanese. Look to
> NTT or KDDI for the most current work, but that will not be available in
> English.
I'd agree that dependence solely upon translated documents would be a poor
way to keep tabs of who's doing what.
And, clearly, my knowledge of what the wireless networking world is doing is
strongly biased towards work of interest to me. I'm not all that interested
in 3G; I'm keenly interested in things like 802.11*.
>> Still, I do expect that Japan's experiences in the early adoption of this
>> technology which push the software and systems issues...
>
> More important than the introduction of technology, the Japanese service
> providers have developed successful business models - i.e., features and
> services - that provide significant value to customers.
Quite true. But my aforementioned bias is towards the creation of
technology since the services require the technology. The services are
important in their own right...they're just less interesting to me.
> This is really too far off topic for this mailing list, so I think we should
> discontinue this in this forum.
Ah, you're no fun. ;-)
And I would argue that the future of "ubiquitous broadband wireless
networking" is at least vaguely related to Entourage because, I think, it
needs to drive the long-term direction of the feature set.
mikel
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