Japan for voice?

inquisitor · 26-09-2011, 23:30

Afaik all PDC-phones sold in the past years were already UMTS-compatible, so only subscribers with very old handsets were affected by the shutdown.
I can't find any more specific information on frequency usage other than PDC used the following three frequency ranges:

800 MHz band: 940–956 MHz uplink / 810–826 MHz downlink (130MHz duplex spacing)
1500 MHz band I: 1147–1489 MHz uplink / 1429–1441 MHz downlink (48MHz duplex spacing)
1500 MHz band II: 1501–1513 MHz uplink / 1452–1465 MHz downlink (48MHz duplex spacing)

All these frequency blocks seem to have been refarmed and assigned to four LTE operators back in 2009 (Japanese gov't confirms frequency bands for LTE) allthough it seems like there hasn't been any LTE frequency band specified for the former PDC800-range (http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php).

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	26-09-2011, 23:30 Afaik all PDC-phones sold in the past years were already UMTS-compatible, so only subscribers with very old handsets were affected by the shutdown. I can't find any more specific information on frequency usage other than PDC used the following three frequency ranges: 800 MHz band: 940–956 MHz uplink / 810–826 MHz downlink (130MHz duplex spacing) 1500 MHz band I: 1147–1489 MHz uplink / 1429–1441 MHz downlink (48MHz duplex spacing) 1500 MHz band II: 1501–1513 MHz uplink / 1452–1465 MHz downlink (48MHz duplex spacing) All these frequency blocks seem to have been refarmed and assigned to four LTE operators back in 2009 (Japanese gov't confirms frequency bands for LTE) allthough it seems like there hasn't been any LTE frequency band specified for the former PDC800-range (http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php). terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com Last edited by inquisitor; 26-09-2011 at 23:41..