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To: Keith Feral who wrote (114499)	2/26/2002 1:32:01 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Not really. India also had a problem that the wireline guys were going to have competition and they starting lobbying hard in any way they could to stop WLL as it dliluted their pwoer base. It was too easy. As Arun posted, the LIneman would not get his bribe to hook you up and not get all the favors he was getting. In WLL, they put up a tower and you walk down to the local WLL store and pick up a phone. Also no sign up fee would be able to be charged. Mobility was an issue as the cost structures for capacity were done with a fixed WLL phone ( almost double what mobile phones have) and if they allowed people to move about then the overall cell density would go down. It is more just a matter of choice for cost, not technology there. If you have to reserve handoff resources and you also cannot have a very fine tuned long term power control setting, then you have more variables in teh system and you have less capacity guardbands to work with. As someone posted yesterday, alot of times a deal in India starts off with all these grand plans, and then as they progress, it moves to including alot of baggagee that you didn;t start with. the sad thing is that they delay their own development and guarantee they keep falling farther behind world times the more they do this.