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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8726)	4/18/2000 8:50:00 AM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 13582

No one thinks Vodafone will go bankrupt, no matter what they pay. It's the absorbtion of monies that might have gone to speed the deployment of W-CDMA and how the need to recoup those costs will effect the rates users will pay which in turn will effect the attractiveness of the service. The deployment of WCDMA will not be as easy, quick, or cheap as some would have had you believe in part because of the cost of aquiring the extra spectrum. Thought you might like the following report from SSB on 3G..... smithbarneyresearch.com Their top picks are QCOM, NOK, ERICY and MOT. The interesting stat. was that they expect $60B to be spent on 3G infrastructure over the next 3 years.....contracts should start being handed out within two months. They also mention the fact that each of the licenses carries a mandatory amount of coverage which must be provided in a couple of years....SSB believes that the minutes from W-CDMA will be competitively priced to recoup the initial investments. Slacker

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8726)	4/18/2000 11:09:00 AM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 13582

Thanks for explaining that HDR uses the same 1.2MHz as CDMAOne, but then what about those licenses? Are they parcelled out in chunks of nx1.2MHz? If not, doesn't that put those planning to use CDMA at a disadvantage, or at least reduce the advantage that CDMAOne might otherwise lend?

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8726)	4/18/2000 11:59:00 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Respond to of 13582

I should have known the answer to my original question. I'll try to make amends by answering my last question. The UK spectrum is being auctioned as Licence A 2 x 15 Mhz paired bands + 1 x5 MHz unpaired B 2 x 15 ................... C 2 x 10 ................... + 1 x5 ............. D 2 X 10 ................... + 1 X 5............. E 2 x 10 ................... + 1 x 5............. I now remember Dr. Jacobs explaining that the 5 Mhz is split into 4 channels, any one or more of which could be devoted to HDR, and that the allocation could be dynamic. That is a provider could have just one 1.2 Mhz channel between, say 5 and 7 pm when there is the most audio traffic. My question remains though, was the format multiples of 5 MHz chosen to fit in with WCDMA. Does GSM use bands this wide. It would seem more efficient to auction off more licences of smaller bandwidth. I also don't understand teh significance of pairing. Is it easier or more efficient if one band handles outbound traffic from the cell-sites, and another inbound?

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8726)	4/19/2000 10:14:00 AM
From: rf_hombre	Respond to of 13582

GPRS and HDR Existing GSM operators do have now the option of upragding to GPRS. This is not an unexpensive proposition as upgrades are still required in the BTSïs BSCs and MSC. Nevertheless such an upgrade would provide anywhere from 22 to 110 kb/s (depending on the number of timeslots used) and would not require incumbents to buy additional spectrum. Not bad though as operators do get a serious bang for their infrastructure buck while taking a "soft" 3G leap of faith.