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To: Eric L who wrote (11898)	5/24/2001 10:12:05 PM
From: quartersawyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Eric--<<dream of TDMA-EDGE with GSM-EDGE at BellSouth Mobility & PacBell>> I'd expect the Shostek report to include a dour assessment of the number of basestations and the scarcity of spectrum to support a "nationwide" WCDMA network in this big nation. Even with Verizon's 2G network in what the mapmakers call the Northeast megalopolis, every decent rural creek carves out enough of the ancient range to make voice communication like digging for the prize in the Cracker Jacks. A hundred feet of terminal moraine can snuff a call in some areas that I travel, but at least I can just call back. I wonder what happens to data when the signal gets rough. It would seem that Verizon 1xRTT could use 100,000 new towers, and 1xEV will want many, many picocells, but Verizon has resolvable problems to make the service great. If a WCDMA network from scratch needs a million smart antennae and a big bolus of new spectrum, "3GSM" in the US may be a condition that makes EDGE look good because it's less obviously painful.