The Q-engineer gets into the right business
Selectively erecting towers.
Message 16002449
To:Pierre who wrote (12154)
From: engineer
Wednesday, Jun 27, 2001 2:07 PM
Respond to of 12156
It is a matter of finding the sweet spot and overall costs. Voice or data is the same.
Look at it this way. the one wiht the min number of towers gets the most coverage for the least dollars to start. At that point, if the cost per min is
the same for both ( due to competition), then the lowest rollout cost wins. If you have to start by rolling out another 50-100% towers (assume for
example that they all cost exactly the same to buy), then the guy who can rollout and get revenue with the lowest sunk costs wins. And then when
the network is running he can SELECTIVELY roll out more towers as needed in higher demand areas. but this implies that he has users who want
mroe bandwidth and will pay for this rollout.
so the higher cost guy has to spend more rollout dollars at first and has no guarantee of return, where as the lower cost guy has less sunk costs and
has the same return.
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Well, great with those questions of users.. but there it
kind of ends.
Ilmarinen
P.S.I thought that this thing with masts and towers was
kind of an old one, in regions with 1800 MHz markets
and actually paying, unbundled customers, no "free lunches"
to be paid by future "share holder values", no two year
share cropping contracts allowed??
P.P.S. COuld it actually be that the mast-technology is
the most important?? Any patents on those, except
sharing them and the rooftops??
Maybe one could patent sharing rooftops for CDMA2000??
(must still be possible for OFDMA, hurry..) |
