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To: engineer who wrote (42994)	10/1/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: quidditch	Respond to of 152472

engineer, your engines have been refired since your return from the Old World!. That was an extremely lucid and helpful explanation. Thanks. Best regards. Steve PS When are you going to kickstart the thread Poobah into exercising his ungodly prerogatives? He's been resting on his laurels.

To: engineer who wrote (42994)	10/1/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 152472

engineer, can you add anything about how CDMA availability with MAP might change the migration picture for carriers? Thanks,MM

To: engineer who wrote (42994)	10/1/1999 1:27:00 AM
From: Climber	Respond to of 152472

engineer, Thanks for your detailed reply. Any thoughts on whether "enough wireless bandwidth" for every household is feasible on a cost basis, i.e. could Sprint make a profit on installing enough microcells to service, say, an urban area with 200 simultaneous users in a 2-mile radius? It may be technologically possible, but is it likely to happen, and when could we see it? TIA, Climber

To: engineer who wrote (42994)	10/1/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Respond to of 152472

Engine.. You probably saw this release re Nokia's tri-mode base stations: biz.yahoo.com Seems to be a cost effective way of dealing with all these "modes" but I assume reality be MUCH more complicated than this release makes things sound. Won't cell siting for WCDMA be completely different from the other TDMA based technologies ie EDGE and GPRS? ..TIA ..DMG

To: engineer who wrote (42994)	10/1/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

""Every household connected ...." A couple of points regarding your post "Yes, if they use microcells, " A shift in mindset of the current network operators, or a new player making an appearence in the field, is needed before this happens. Network operators are looking to reduce network roll-out costs, which they link to the price and number of basestations needed to provide 'adequate' service. If this is not good enough, then people like COX communications can put them up via cable TV ( see saunders CDMA equipment) and distribute this down the street with super microcells wiht 1-2 block radius. This isn't happening. COX is more interested in pushing cable directly into the home. One thing to note technically on AT&T. they canot use the microcell approach very well, since they cannot reuse the adjacent frequencies on cell sites like CDMA. I thought that DECT addressed this very issue. DECT was designed as an 'access' technology to GSM. The idea is that you would layout out a campus type situation (e.g. a hospital) with a DECT microcell network, which also acts as a gateway to the much larger GSM network. w.