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To: The Reaper who wrote (4097)	10/29/2000 10:38:47 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197271

If your already a CDMA IS-95 customer, then you change out the channel cards. Cost about $50-100k per basestation. To give you a relative size, San Diego has about 28 BTS for the entire city wide coverage. then you load some software to upgrade the switch and billing software. But if you do this wiht the newer CSM 5000, you get HDR for about the same cost. Add about $10k for router and softeware TCP/IP stack and you can do data. As for going from IS-95 to WCDMA, start all over from scratch. Rebuy most of the system and relearn everything in terms of tower spacing, frequency reuse, and system wide adjustments. I assume the new lic will start from zero and build up from there. The big issue is not only the cost to the carrier, but to the mfg as well. remember they have no experience so for them to do this would take them a couple of years before they get good at it. Doesn't matter much what technology, there is just a mfg learning curve that you MUST follow. So IF one or two of the 3G licensees went CDMA2000, they would just about have the market to themselves for a year or two until these guys got their act together. Should be a fun circus to watch. Just hard to tell the clowns....