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To: JGoren who wrote (9245)	3/29/2001 1:15:18 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 197146

There is a flaw in their arguement. From the story: "For the PDC (the current 2G network) system, we are allocated 30MHz and with this spectrum we are now serving 35 million. If we can get an additional 5MHz for FOMA," he said, referring to DoCoMo's 3G brand name, "total spectrum is around 20MHz." This means the company will still have to work on other solutions, such as improved efficiency of frequency usage but, he said, "it will be difficult to accommodate all 35 million subscribers on FOMA." If their 35 million PDC users move to FOMA wouldn't that free up the PDC spectrum? More realisticly, if only a third moved from PDC for FOMA, wouldn't that free up enough PDC spectrum so they could uses the 5 MHZ for FOMA that overlaps the PDC allocation? Isn't FOMA's W-CDMA supposed to be much, much more spectrially efficient tha PDC? If 30Mhz PDC can support 35 million users and they claim that 15 Mhz is not enough for 35 million, they need 20Mhz, are they saying that FOMA is only a third better in the number of users it can support in a given amount of spectrum than PDC?