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To: slacker711 who wrote (4299)	11/11/2001 10:21:03 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Hi Slacker, In fairness, for about a month, now, my pcs service has been noticeably better than it was as recently as five or six months ago, after an absolutely horrendous period immediately following the attacks, but all services were unbearable during that period, and that was understandable for obvious reasons. I should add, however, that my office communications from Verizon (and Con Ed power) was entirely knocked out when West Street went down, after 7 WTC fell on it. Immediately following this our Sprint services went kaput for all intents and purposes. In contrast, Verizon issued temporary cellular phones to us that we were able to use rather successfully a couple of days later, and they worked just fine while we were still experiencing problems with other vendors' phones, both Sprint's and Nextel's. But I'm still experiencing a number of incoming calls every now and then that go directly to voicemail during heavy traffic periods, which may be a problem of capacity, or simply one of system tuning. Don't know. And I'm still experiencing "some" evidence of tower work on weekends when I lose service for extended periods at a time, usually 'Round Midnight after a concert or show, when I'm trying to call a limo from a stranded location uptown =:O But on the whole, it seems to have improved since my last bitch post here, but not by much. Perhaps the rehabs that went in after 9-11 have something to do with this? For what it's worth, my pcs service from Sprint is still the only one that I'm aware of that still does not work in the river tunnels, over leaky feeder systems. This is something that carriers must negotiate with the city or tunnel authorities. Apparently, they have not seen fit to do this, for one reason or another, or maybe there is some other reason. Not really sure why this is. FAC

To: slacker711 who wrote (4299)	11/11/2001 11:56:11 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi, Slacker - " They should have enough spectrum to accomdate increased penetration and usage that approach wireline rates, without coming close to taxing their system capacity. " Which brings us back to Peter's point - "3G is a 'brand' for getting new spectrum from regulators, not a more efficient use of existing spectrum." ____________________________________ You're probably right to question the point at which capacity will be exceeded. Traffic is dispersed in geography and time. A measurement of traffic on our highways would probably determine that they are under-used. But that's little comfort to the person stuck in rush-hour traffic. "Unforuntately, I dont think that there is enough hard data yet to figure out how much spectrum will be needed for wireless data services." Agreed - and I don't think that anyone has figured out what those services will be. Nokia and Ericsson have been researching 3G apps for a long time. Assumptions about growth and demographics are iffy; if the scenario I'm proposing is wrong, then what motivation would there be for capacity increases, by modulation changes, or otherwise? None, that I can see. It all becomes the pipe dreams of engineers. Is that what you're saying? Regards, Jim