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To: LarsA who wrote (17790)1/14/2002 12:12:10 PM
From: Keith Feral  Read Replies (1) of 34857
 
I don't find it STRANGE - it's bizness!! PCS is making a deliberate decision to increase the capacity benefits of 1x before they start introducing 3G data. This gives them another quarter of 1X models in the pipeline before 3G data is commercially deployed in June. They need to deploy as many 1X voice models to allow for them to double capacity. They can double capacity again when their 1X networks hit a critical number of 1X handsets with an additional software upgrade.

It's brialliant from an economic viewpoint because you can't offer 3G data until you have sufficient capacity to handle the higher load traffic for packet data, VoIP, gpsOne and other 3G data solutions. The two step dance to 3G voice and data is an excellent way for PCS to roll out 3G CDMA services. Each upgrade they makes is a building block for subsequent voice and data upgrades. It's an evolutionary wonder of progress. I hope that things work this smoothly for DS CDMA upgrades from GSM & TDMA networks to 3G WCDMA.
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