NTT-NoGoMoKo in Japan, plus falling back

Tim Newsom cephdon at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 22:48:30 CEST 2007


You misunderstand... What I meant was " Is 3G backward compatible for 
data with previous formats." Plus, i thought that only the US had any 
kind of cell company which uses cdma. I am quite surprised by that as I 
thought most if not all other countries used GSM. /shrug.


On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:55, Mikko Rauhala wrote:
> su, 2007-07-08 kello 12:00 -0700, Tim Newsom kirjoitti:
>>  Um... Japan does have GSM service...  I am positive as I recently had
>>  guests in my house from japan. They brought their cell phones and I
>>  showed them how to make them work in the US.
>
> Means nothing. Their phones may be GSM-capable spesifically to work
> overseas. All of my info says that there's no GSM in Japan, but I
> haven't rechecked recently
>
>>  Does EDGE fall back to gprs?  Does 3G fall back to EDGE or GPRS if the
>>  phone doesn't support it?
>
> Given a phone that supports all of the following, HSDPA will fall back
> to plain old UMTS will fall back to EDGE will fall back to GPRS,
> according to network availability. Japan, on the other hand, uses their
> own types of (W)CDMA networks.
>
> "3G" falling back to EDGE or GPRS if the _phone_ doesn't support it is
> rather nonsensical notion. If a phone is a GSM phone, it will work in a
> GSM network. It will not work in a 3G network, so there's nothing to
> fall back _from_.
>
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