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To: Ihubber who wrote (59349)	1/24/2005 1:28:52 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

<Glad to see you have moderated your stance on the much preached about inadequacies of WCDMA and others.> Where did you get that idea? W-CDMA is inadequate. D'oh!CoMo's version even failed. They lost $billions trying to promote their dopey idea around the world. <backhaul/forwardhaul is the bottle neck both in terms of speed and price.... Doesn't matter what speed you air interface can operate at, it is the speed/cost of the backhaul connection to get to the Internet that limits> Okay, let's suppose we have optical fibre running into the base station, as we do in Globalstar gateways. Bit transport in fibre is fast and cheap. The problem is the air interface. Same for terrestrial base stations. Optical fibre in and 1xEV-DO out = fast and cheap service. Of course if there's a twisted pair going into the back of the base station, it's going to be a grindingly slow service. That's why fibre is needed. The speed of cyberspace service is the speed of the slowest link. CDMA networks don't have any special problem in that regard and on the contrary, they can fit so much data through, that the economics of upgrading backhaul are improved greatly. GPRS and EDGE are obsolete, yet weirdly, they are still being bought all over the place. I am surprised at how slowly better technology gains ground. Mqurice

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