I would expect that if there are people who are paying for enough packets to justify 2.4 Mbps HDR service, then the carrier will install pico base-stations on the street light poles which can service an ever smaller area.
What about in a home or office environment, where high-speed service might be brought in through another medium, couldn't HDR still be used as a wireless LAN? Assuming one had high speed service into the home or office, whether through cable, DSL, or even wireless itself, could a CDMA local network drive various applicances? For example could that pico base station at the pole, or a transmitter at the cable box, then drive HDR enabled devices such as a PC, an interactive TV, a cellular, and whatever other appliances one had, subject to the total bandwidth throughput limits? There are some cartoons in Qualcomm's wireless vision briefing that show a setup like this, but not a lot of details are provided. I assume this is the broader concept of CDMA beyond cellular applications, and Qualcomm would receive royalties from whatever part of their patented technoogy is used for these applciations, am I right?
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