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To: Jim Parkinson who wrote (12937)	5/18/2000 5:18:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Jim, <That is what I seem to recall i.e. 30 mil +- per gw. I understand a cell tower cost about 500k per installation and is good for 25 - 50 miles. The local Airtouch folks say that 25 is what they shoot for. That makes the cost of a cell tower about 10,000 - 20,000 per mile vs a gw cost of 1667 per mile (30mil/1800 miles). Kinda of a rough calc and probable not really an apple to apple comparison but kind of interesting.> Try a per square mile comparison and then you'll find satellite service is very, very cheap and coverage of desert becomes economic, unlike for cellphone services which can never justify covering desert [or rural] areas where there are always a few people going walkabout. The cost of a terrestrial Babe is more like $200,000 all up [I think that's about right and depending on the type - there are the little mini-Q! Babes which are intended for a particular event or building and they are much cheaper] I suppose the 'Boomer' base-stations by Nortel, intended to cover 130km x 130km in Australia would be a lot more expensive. A little [in circuitry - the civil engineering aspects are much the same everywhere though some have fewer tracking dishes than others] NZ gateway would cost about US$15m all up [I believe] give or take a few million and depending on the need for a GSM switch. I suppose a big and many circuited major gateway would be maybe $30m [I don't really know]. Terrestrial base-stations are much closer than 25 miles in a city. But in the country they'd try to get that sort of range, but hills and valleys cause shadows which are a pain. Mqurice