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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6444)	1/23/2001 7:49:15 PM
From: Lance Bredvold	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197054

Mqurice; Is your following statement totally true, partially true (as I suspect) or incorrect? >>Even Leap won't compete with a company which sells CDMA Wacky Wireless. That's because when Leap is overloaded, people won't be able to get through, so what will Leap do about that? Leap will leave people without phone service or cut them off if the cell they are in suffocates and shrinks and the subscriber is at the periphery of it. People closer to the base station will retain service and those on the periphery will lose it. << The reason I ask is that just a couple of hours ago I made the assertion to some people who are concerned with the capabilities of QCOM's CDMAone through 2000 that one of the advantages Leap has is that if a sector reaches design capacity at 14.4 kbps(actually it seemed to me the number was 13 something for best voice quality) it will automatically step down to something like 8 kbps, then to 4 and finally all the way down to about 2kbps rather than cutting off users. I cannot find my source for that information (maybe it was you (gg))(notice fancy complex use of open and closed parentheses) (in proper mathematical form)) but I remember it quite well because, while I had been aware of the ability to step down once, it was the first time I'd heard of the next two steps. Thanks for your consideration. Lance