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Technology Stocks : CDMA, Qualcomm, [Hong Kong, Korea, LA] THE MARKET TEST!

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To: Philip Merryman who wrote (772)	9/14/1996 1:13:00 AM
From: Philip Merryman	of 1819

The following is an excerpt from an article entitled "Cox Sees Test As Technology Proof" on the "Broadband Week" web site located at multichannel.com : A test of cable-based microcell deployment for personal communications services (PCS) conducted under real market conditions offers new evidence that a still-reluctant cable industry could play a significant role in the new wireless voice business. Cox California PCS Inc. put the technology through its most rigorous test yet during the Republican Party convention in early August, with friendly users making "many tens of thousands of calls," said Bruce Crair, vice president and general manager of the Cox Communications Inc. subsidiary. "We found that from a network operations perspective, we could see no difference in performance between areas covered by CMIs [cable microcell integrators] and those covered by [tower-based] macrocells," Crair said. "And the same was true from the customer perspective." While CMI technology has been the subject of extensive testing at Cox in preparation for its launch of PCS in segments of its Southern California license area, the GOP convention marked the first instance where a high volume of calls was handled in a commercial-like environment involving multiple transmitter sites. The test was a key step in the commercial rollout process, involving not only the new cable-based technology, but also the CDMA (code division multiple access) air interface that has been a subject of widespread debate within the PCS industry. "The CDMA technology worked very well," Crair said. "There are going to be ongoing design refinements before and after launch, as we gain experience with where the points of high and low usage will be, but we don't see anything that would delay commercial launch."

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