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To: synchro who wrote (5809)11/27/1997 2:30:00 PM
From: recycled_electron  Read Replies (3) of 152472
 
A recent article in Electronic Business (November issue) cited
a Allied Business report suggesting a ramp up of WLL subscribers
from near 0 to 266m by 2006. 84% of these subscribers will be in
developing nations. Qualcomm, Motorola and Nortel are
expected to dominate this market. STRelecom, Diva Comm.,
Phoenix Wireless are targetting rural regions.

With fixed subscribers, increased sectorization allows an
operator to offer more capacity, but...
another interesting thing we have noticed is that some
WLL operators are also opting for a 5-10% component of mobile
subscribers who can roam within a system and in between compatible
systems. So, it seems that you really can't design for a "pure"
WLL system, where you'd expect no one to roam and you could
plan your network such that only a handful of few mobile
stations would be in soft-handoff at any given point of time.

There's not much of a trend that I'm aware of for
the other way around (i.e. cellular operators offering a small WLL
subscriber base).

Please post if you have more information/examples of these trends.
While there are interesting network and system design issues there
are licensing/legal implications too -- for instance is it legal
for an operator who has purchased spectrum for WLL to offer
limited mobility?

Thanks,

Sudeepto.
ps.
eb-mag.com
alliedworld.com
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