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To: Mark Steffler who wrote (23)	8/30/1996 5:43:00 PM
From: Mo Chips	of 48

Here are some numbers to mull over... An average cell site costs $150 to $250K for acquisition, zoning and construction. The radios for the cell from Motorola cost another $200k all the way up to $500k or more depending on the antenna type and number of radios per cell. A highly populated area will need a minimum of 100 or so cell sites. You will also need at least one switch that costs maybe another $10 or $20 million. Put that all together and you just spent anywhere from $60 to $100 million for one large city with "decent" cell coverage. Places like California that have a lot of mountains add more $$$. Nextel covers, I believe, all of the 50 largest cities in the US. You just spend $5 billion just for building where Nextel owns frequency, which the FCC will take back if you don't build out. You also have to pay the Sales team, operations, G&A, etc. for offices in all of these cities. I'll leave the looking at their annual report and financials to see if there is enough for this to you.... mo

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