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To: who cares? who wrote (123)9/11/1999 9:23:00 AM
From: Cosmo Daisey   of 538
 
CM,
"""It's sort of like the same thing that killed IRID. By the time they were up and running, cellular had grown enough to take all the customers.(or at least enough to make it profitable)"""
IRID is dead because of antique technology that Motorola builds and instals. The system was doomed from the start. Most of the equipment is in the satelite and if you lose a bird you can't send a guy in a pickup to put in a new board. The TDMA technology is unreliable and expensive. Dropped calls, noisy, interference, etc. MOT hold an equity position wasted billions on the system.
GSTRF on the other hand is supported by Qualcom and their CDMA technology. CDMA equipment for the most part is installed in ground stations with inexpensive satelites serving as antennas. If there is a problem with the bird they have a bunch of inexpensive spares ready to go to work. If tere is an equipment problem the guy in the pickup can drive to the base station and fix it. GSTRF isn't going to make money installing one phone in a remote village like IRID tried to do. Their service will be roaming for all those CDMA networks (Sprint PCS, Bell Atlantic, etc. ) not ATT, using antique TDMA. Only 20 percent of the US has cellular coverage because its not worth it for anyone to put up an antenna in low population areas. In the NYC area there are lots of dead zones along major highways that could roam on GSTRF system. I think there is a market for $1 a minute roaming in areas that otherwise don't have any coverage.
cdaiseyPhD@research-caltech.edu
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