As someone who, like Rajala, has questioned the wisdom of non-mobile WLL, let me ask for some technical clarification.
You said a CDMA base station can have 43 users per sector and that pure WLL cells have six sectors. By my math, that means a WLL cell can have 6x43=258 users. Perhaps this is too simple a question (I'm a simple person with limited technical expertise, but I'm pretty good at arithmetic), but how many sectors are there per mobile CDMA basestation? Or is this even a relevant question? Is WLL inherently and significantly cheaper per user than mobile CDMA? If so, how and why?
If WLL has 6x mobile's capacity per basestation, then WLL probably makes financial sense, but I think it would take that kind of significant capacity or financial advantage to be enough cheaper than mobile to justify the lower performance levels.
My point has been that most people, even relatively poor third world people (the real third world, not Pennsylvania) would rather have mobile service than WLL, all things being equal, and would be willing to pay more for it. How much more? 20%? 50% Double? I don't know. I expect Qualcomm and Leap have studied this issue exactly, and their answer has convinced them of WLL's financial viability, so I am prepared to be convinced. |
