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To: Pierre who wrote (24436)	11/15/2001 2:45:44 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

ATC is "Ancillary Terrestrial Component" which basically means putting a limited cell system on the ground with the objective that satellite handsets could receive signals indoors and in "urban canyons." The ATC would be at the same frequency as the space segment (already allocated to MSS) and would have two benefits: (1) it frees G* from relying on a local terrestrial SP and (2) the handset could be smaller and cheaper because it would be a single (or dual, if they kept the AMPS component) mode phone, instead of the tri-mode we have now. OTOH, the ATC infrastructure equipment, even if it was only planned to serve a few hundred K subs, would be very expensive to install and maintain, I assume. The B/H filing speaks glowingly of ATC as the savior for systems like G, but G's own filing says it won't be deployed until, "at the earliest, several years hence."