Skip: One quick note I wanted to make.. You stated over on Yahoo.
"What I do believe is that only in fairly specialized situations will LWIN be able to offer all you can eat data."
and
"The really neat thing about LWIN is that they don't really depend upon data anyway--voice is doing it fine and whatever data goes is just fine and if it doesn't they still have the extra capacity to use on voice."
First of all.. Like I have pointed out earlier. Using Salt Lake City as a reference and being conservative that there is no extra capacity for Data Services.
Salt Lake City has 15 Mhz. (5 carrier pairs) and covers 1.372 million covered POP's.. Where as Phoenix has 10Mhz (3 carrier pairs) and covers 2.951 million POP's. So the following figures of extra capacity available in a given CricKet market launched are using Salt Lake City as a base line (Voice Only Market). Even though my opinion says that it will support data also..
Fayetteville, AR 28 Mhz
Fort Smith, AR 28.7 Mhz
Pine Bluff, AR 19.2 Mhz
Jonesboro, AR 13.9
Phoenix, AZ (22.25) Mhz
Merced, CA 13.3 Mhz
Modesto, CA 11.19 Mhz
Visalia, CA 11.14 Mhz
Denver, CO (14.91) Mhz
Ft. Collins, CO 7.66 Mhz
Greeley, CO 8.4Mhz
Colmbus, GA 28Mhz
Macon, GA 27.4 Mhz
Bosie,ID 25.9 Mhz
Wichita, KS 24.4 Mhz
Lincoln, NE 12.8 Mhz
Omaha, NE 3.79 Mhz
Albuquerque,NM 7.9 Mhz
Santa Fe, NM 13.99Mhz
Reno, NV 6.16 Mhz
Buffalo, NY (0.5233) Mhz
Syracuse 9.38 Mhz
Dayton (0.613) Mhz
Toledo 9.4 Mhz
Sandusky, OH 14.1 Mhz
Eugene, OR 7.3 Mhz
Salem, OR 27.26 Mhz
Pittsburgh, PA (14.75) Mhz
Spokane, WA 9.86 Mhz
Hot Springs, AR 14.4 Mhz
Little Rock, AR 15.4 Mhz
Tuscon, AZ 6.7 Mhz
Charlotte, NC (1.23) Mhz
Greensboro,NC 3.16 Mhz
Tulsa, OK 8.13 Mhz
Chattannoga, TN 11.4
Clarksville, TN 13.6 Mhz
Knoxville, TN 9.7 Mhz
Memphis 4.32 Mhz
Nashville, TN 3.88 Mhz
Salt Lake City 0 Mhz
Provo, UT 11.4 Mhz.
Using these calculations, Chattanooga will have 3 extra carriers. Which jives with the Chattanooga uses 2 sometimes 3 carriers for voice information you got before. Remember.. All of these calculations are BEFORE 1X.
But, again. I would prefer to use Phoenix as the voice only 1X base line and call everything over that as available for data in the other markets.
If you look at the Cost of Service for Data vs. Voice.. You will find that their is allot more margin in data.
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