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To: pcstel who wrote (94555)	2/24/2001 6:48:14 PM
From: The Verve	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

UMTS spectrum is for umts - operators that bid for this spectrum have signed contracts to put in umts when they bid. What am I missing here - are you saying they can thrown in ANY technology they choose? I doubt that - but I'm not beyond being educated. Please enlighten me. Verve And that goes for 1X as well - in the umts band. Perhaps governments will change their mind and allow other technologies if it is true WCDMA won't be here for several years, but that has to happen first.

To: pcstel who wrote (94555)	2/24/2001 7:08:51 PM
From: mightylakers	Respond to of 152472

How can the operators with existing UMTS licenses deploy infrastructure with the least cost in order to generate some cash from that Spectrum I have a theory, all those vendors want the operators buy some thing expensive. The more expensive, the better. Also it's all about job security, you keep on moving the goal post, you keep on bring in the money by promising. Data is considered a "second rate citizen" in much of the world No doubt about it. And not long ago wireless voice was second rate citizen too. It's all about you living habit and style. I didn't know the existence of TV till I was 11(when I was told 2/3 of world population waiting for us to liberate), saw the first frige at 15. And now I wonder how I lived through those glorious days. So the required bandwidth just dropped by a factor of 500% But how about the overall capacity requirement? You have 1 person asked for that 13M TIFF file then, and you have 10 guys ask for that 2M file now. You do the math! So if they were going to deploy 1xEV.. How would they sell this to the Banks? How much more than the X Billion for a GSM2100 build out would they need... Using your language, certain technology is even more expensive, or and delayed. Of course not when they deployed GSM2100<ggg> Certainly a possibility. How did the Vodafone CDMA overlay trials go in the UK in 1997?? Pretty successful last time I checked. Don't you think that got to have something to do with the future multimode? Or BTW, surprised you ask that at all, considering you are such a G* expert so you should know G*'s GSM capability is a result of that trial.