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To: ftth who wrote (5305)	3/23/2002 5:11:04 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

I'd like to see the breakdown of that 300 B. That's about twice to three times as much as we'd one estimated it would take to bring silica into every living room, no?

To: ftth who wrote (5305)	3/24/2002 11:27:14 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Herschel Shosteck of The Shosteck Group research company estimates that it would probably cost $300 billion for all the carriers to roll out 3G in the United States. I have never seen a number this high for US 3G costs...perhaps they were talking about worldwide? I think you could build a brand new 3G network in the US for somewhere in the neighborhood of $10-$15 Billion. The upgrade costs are dramatically less....here's another number that looks way off. The U.S. carriers are constrained in many ways. Many are still upgrading their networks to 2.5G, a slower technology. Shosteck estimates that Sprint and Verizon alone will spend between $6 billion to $10 billion to upgrade their networks. PCS has stated a number of times that the upgrade to 1xrtt will cost $800 million. If the Korean upgrade cost to 1xEV-DO is any guide (and it should be), the total cost to get 1x and 1xEV-DO would still be a couple billion less than Shosteck's numbers. Slacker