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To: Eric L who wrote (12980)	6/24/2001 5:39:05 PM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

Eric, can as a practical matter, support 625 kbps on the forward link, or failing that supports 614 kbps (one way or another)? I'm not saying it is practical, or say sustainable. Here we fall back to the notion of peak rate and avg throughput game again. I think we have touched this before. Engineer wrote a post to you over there explaining the various factors affecting the data speed. You can dig that up and read it one more time. On the other hand the reasons we have almost never seen any operators blowing that 600kbps horn are: 1) That is peak rate ned perfect radio environment with for the user(s) to achieve that over 600kbps throughtput. BTW, I actually mentioned this over 600kbps thing last year when somebody asked me about the overall thoughput of 1x, not just the individual speed. I answered with 624, purely out of the standard. So it's not a new thing as you can see. 2) The operators, as you know, don't want too much of data users vs. the voice users. Therefore they are not going to allow you to use that high of speed anyway. So they are not even let you know that they actually have the technology. Remember that Shoteck's paper about technology is not the problem, it's the carriers. They want to maxmize the return with the kind of service just at the level that users can tolerate. 3) 1xoperators are playing a very low profile in the whole 1x rollout. From the recent report out of Korea, the avg throughput they experienced are actually pretty good don't you think? I'm refering to the run down of the data speed range and the percentage of each. Esp. considering that is the very first networks with a lot of things to improve. Unlike their GPRS counterparts, which coming out with that theoritical 170 kbps to hype things up, CDMA operators never used that over 600kbps to hype anything. All they did is stick with that 144kbps expectation. And they are doing it pretty good I would say.