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To: Eric L who wrote (12586)	7/7/2001 11:06:30 AM
From: Kent Rattey	Respond to of 196562

Saturday, July 07, 2001 VoiceStream acquires GTE Wireless license -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Mike Boyer The Cincinnati Enquirer The GTE Wireless license in Greater Cincinnati has been acquired by VoiceStream Wireless Corp., a Bellevue, Wash., provider of digital wireless service. But it will be later this year before VoiceStream, which was recently acquired by German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG, begins marketing its wireless service in the Cincinnati-Dayton area, said spokesman Casey Otley. VoiceStream, which has about 5.5 million customers nationally, uses a different digital wireless technology than GTE, which launched the region's first digital wireless network in 1997. He said it will take several months to update the area GTE network with VoiceStream's technology. Mr. Otley said he didn't know the purchase price or the number of customers GTE Wireless has in the Cincinnati-Dayton area. Since GTE launched its service, a half dozen other providers started similar digital service here including Cincinnati Bell Wireless, Sprint PCS, Cingular and Verizon Communications. It's the second time in the last year a sale agreement for the regional GTE Wireless network has been announced. Last summer a private investment group called BGV Acquisition Co., which included J.P. Morgan Capital Corp., agreed to buy the wireless telephone licenses in Cincinnati-Dayton and Chicago held by Verizon Communications. That deal fell apart when the BGV group's financing fell through, a Verizon spokesman said. Verizon was required by the U.S. Justice Department to sell the GTE Wireless networks here and in Chicago because it held duplicate licenses in those markets as a result of the merger of Bell Atlantic, GTE Wireless and Vodafone AirTouch into Verizon. VoiceStream spun off in 1999 from Western Wireless, and uses a digital technology known as GSM, or Global System for Mobile, which is the wireless standard outside the United States.

To: Eric L who wrote (12586)	7/7/2001 11:20:48 AM
From: Getch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196562

Eric, thanks for posting the Korean report. It appears that there are two paths to cdma2000. One taken by LG, an 'upgrade' with new boards/channels. According to the article, this is less current expense, but does not position them as well for 1X-DO. The other by KT and SK, of 'overlay' which required new BTS and BSC. This is a greater current expense, but will be easier to upgrade to 1X-DO. What are the advantages and reasons (type of IS-95A or B system?) for choosing one verses the other? and if anybody knows, which path is being used by Sprint and Verizon? from the report, Summary Korean operators are quite rightly proud of being the first nation to offer 3G networks. The government may wish to classify this as 2.5G, but to all intents and purposes the networks are 3G, according to ITU definitions. But like the rest of the industry there is too much focus is on data speeds. The issue is now whether or not the data speeds can be used to create mass market applications. The initial 1x deployments have been and will be largely used to increase voice capacity. The introduction of colour handsets is seen as a key driver for the growth of higher bandwidth applications. > It appears that a large part of the financial justification for doing the upgrade now is the increased voice, as data is still not developed. My other question is, what is the effect upon network voice capacity of the GPRS upgrade path?

To: Eric L who wrote (12586)	7/7/2001 11:58:36 AM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 196562

Great report Eric, your Qcom cheerleader status is extended! One thing the report says well, or say implies well is that the operators are still learning how to maximize the data throughput. Actually there's no uniform algorithm in allocating data speed to the end users. In HDR, radio environment makes very important decision. In CDMA2000, we are still pretty much using round robin trying to serve everybody simultaneously, and that may lower the overall throughput. So it is all about gaining the precious experiences in the real world operation. There will be no "best" solution to it. If there is certain kind of pattern as far as data traffic concerns then one can utilize the optimal solution for that pattern. However the pattern can change from region to region, time to time, group to group. We all understand probability and statistics is a game of large numbers. And that make it more important to gain more experience in the real world operation.