09-26-2004, 04:00 PM
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Global CDMA Alliance
"China Unicom is hosting a two-day meeting of CDMA mobile operators in Beijing Thursday and Friday, aimed at setting global industry standards...The company hopes to form a global alliance purely for practical reasons, said Unicom's executive director, William Lo. Without common standards among different operators and vendors, CDMA mobile phone users cannot transmit data between different networks."
Kudos to China Unicom for being the pioneer in implementing Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM) and for initiating the process of forming global alliance of CDMA operators. And once again Verizon has let us down by not participating in this important meeting. :-( R-UIM is a smart card, similar to the GSM SIM cards, that holds subscriber information necessary to receive wireless service. It enables the CDMA network subscriber to change handsets by merely switching the R-UIM card from the old handset to the new one and activate the new cell phone on the network, without calling the carrier's customer service for re-programming the device. It also enables international travelers to roam on GSM networks by using the R-UIM card in a GSM phone (instead of the regular SIM card). What I am not sure about is, whether or not the cell phone user can switch CDMA carriers and use their R-UIM enabled phone on the new carrier's network? Another reason why this meeting is important is because the Smartphone world will soon be getting its first R-UIM capable phone in the form of the HTC Vivida. 
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09-27-2004, 12:17 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Global CDMA Alliance
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Originally Posted by Kris Kumar
"The company hopes to form a global alliance purely for practical reasons, said Unicom's executive director, William Lo. Without common standards among different operators and vendors, CDMA mobile phone users cannot transmit data between different networks."
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Wonder how many years it'll take to form the alliance, and then how many years to actually implement the proposed changes?
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