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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (1732)	4/7/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: Quincy	of 34857

Thank you for your kind response, Mika. But, it wasn't a misconception. I don't feel good about the economic justification for "WCDMA" when it reuses very little of the existing infastructure and none of the existing spectrum or RF equipment. To upgrade to CDMA for High Speed Data Rates is one thing. To deploy CDMA just to solve TDMA capacity challenges is something else. That involves convincing people they need new handsets and obtaining more spectrum. My fear of WCDMA "upgrades" is the band they have chosen. Between 800-900Mhz, 1800-1900Mhz, and the 2.3(?)Ghz bands, coverage shrinks. Gives providers a good reason to delay that upgrade to find more cellsites to lease (and eliminate the CDMA "dead zones.") China's conversion to CDMA is inevitable. Even Nokia wants to sell WCDMA in some form to China. How can you reach the advertised data rates of GPRS and EDGE when your cells are already drowning in voice traffic? Good luck.

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