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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: axial who wrote (9750)12/16/2000 1:42:48 PM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
Is UMTS really worth the cost of building a new mobile network? Christoffer Andersson at Ericsson thinks so:

"Data speed is just a small part of all the advantages of UMTS. UMTS has traffic prioritization, making it possible to introduce a range of completely new services. And the network has a far higher capacity. A typical GSM base station can handle 300 calls, while even the first release of UMTS can handle 2800 calls."

I think that this is the only part of the article that addresses the true reason for 3G....capacity. If any of these wireless data services prove to be popular they will overwhelm the capacity of current 2G networks. GPRS is currently being touted as "fast enough" for data services....but GPRS aggregates GSM voice channels to provide that speed. Every GPRS user will be kicking a number of voice users off of the network. The extra capacity that CDMA provides allows it to avoid this dilemma.

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