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To: Jim Mullens who wrote (39026)	1/30/2004 11:51:41 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) of 197032

It was my understanding that deploying WCDMA anywhere other than the densely populated areas was just to expensive a proposition. Has not the various governments demanded that the rural areas also have 3G? Hutchison has already achieved 70% coverage in the UK (based on covered POP's)....my guess is that this is already equivalent to the digital coverage that Verizon Wireless has in the US. Obviously, the UK is quite a bit smaller than the US and I am sure that there are quite a few holes in the coverage, but overall it seems that W-CDMA is quite able to cover large segments of the population. Deutsche Telecom hasnt launched W-CDMA yet, and they just upped their year-end coverage estimate from 40% to 50%. As for the links, every single one of them is talking about offering GSM/1xrtt handsets. These are for global roamers and has nothing to do with installing GSM 1x infrastructure. All of which is probably besides the point. As of right now, there still arent any applications that the 1xrtt carriers are running that GPRS cant run. Remember, these are rural areas....if they need more voice or data capacity, they can always add more carriers. They wont have the spectrum limitations that they have in the cities. The Newbury trials were six years ago....since then, I have seen zero evidence that they are moving towards 1xrtt. Personally, I think it is time to let that dream go. Slacker

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