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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: elmatador who wrote (8823)10/9/2000 3:38:40 PM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (3) of 12823
 
This comes back to the mobile operators who, then, say they are not going to roll out 3G across their whole serving areas but only in the high concentration of potential users and do some GPRS in the rest of the area. This points to a more limited market for mobile vendors and in effect of depresses the shares of NOK and ERICY.

Are you implying that GPRS will be installed in spectrum that is designated 3G? The other interpretation is that GPRS would be installed in current spectrum while W-CDMA would only be installed in cities.....thus leaving vast amounts of spectrum unused. Neither of these options makes much sense to me. The operators just spent $35B for the rights to this spectrum....allowing most of the spectrum to remain unused seems improbable, unless they actually ran out of money (I wonder if their is a limit to how much the banks will lend the big Telecom companies).

One question I have had for a while that someone on this thread may be able to clear up.....Does GPRS or EDGE allow an increase in VOICE capacity? I know that both of these techonologies will allow an increase in data speeds, but have never received a clear answer on their respective voice capacacities compared to GSM.

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