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To: pcstel who wrote (115751)	3/18/2002 3:47:13 PM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

PCS, Re: moderate I think once you understand how HDR is working then you may take a different look at the so-called "Moderate". HDR uses receiver's radio condition as the deciding factor to determine how fast the data it can send to the users. In HDR the BTS always operate with the Max power and the users are waiting in the line for his share of data. As a result, both from common sense and technical point of view, the BTS wanna serve the user as the fastest as possible so that it can go on serve for the next user. To slow things down can only have your throughput and capacity suffering and that doesn't make any sense. So you tell me that Leap wanna slow things down to make its network slower and service more expensive. Now if you are just talking about from user perspective, then the carrier can control a user's overall speed by different allocation control policies then it is a different story. To make an analogy, say you wanna control a user's speed 100 Kbs of data, the carrier can still send you with 1000kb/s, it may give you 100kbps by sending you the data in 0.1 sec with 0.9 sec idle while serving the other people. Now think about the above situation, what if you have no other people in the networks or no other active users asking for the data at this moment(reading the web page), do you think the carrier chooses to 1) Still sending 0.1 sec with 0.9 sec of idle or 2) Sending at the full speed to the user so that he can be finished off before other needs coming up You tell me. The bottom line, the carrier always want to maximize it's overall throughput regardless what the users see. So everything after that is a different issue.