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To: JMD who wrote (4657)	1/5/2000 4:16:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

*Capacity* <Without doubt, a new low was reached when Walt and engineer were reduced to a "paddles in the bath water" analogy attempting to illustrate how radio frequencies zip around in cyberspace. For some crazy reason, it made sense [thank god] and it just seemed you could cram more of those little devils into the ether with Irwin's magic than with the snake oil offered by the Evil Ericsson Empire> It seems to have quietly slipped by that the new directional antenna techniques are going to double capacity. That will zoom CDMA well past 20:1 compared with the old analogue systems. Hang on. HDR was going to double capacity. That must mean we are nearing 40:1 capacity, which was the original 'theoretical' aim of Irwin Jacobs back in 1989 [just after L M Ericsson and Interdigital invented CDMA]. I suspect he wasn't including two-stick antennae. So much yet again for the claims that CDMA was a crock, breached the laws of physics, capacity was fake, under load it would collapse, blah, blah, blah. NextWave's spectrum will be going up in value if they are able to double capacity. Or triple or whatever we are up to. Costs of a megabyte via HDR will be cheap. Teleputers will be ubiquitous. GSM is toast, and sooner rather than later. Mqurice