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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (21891)	8/25/2002 11:37:39 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

It's too complex to envisage the whole game (even with pooling all the brains that money can buy). So they tried their best. But their best wasn't enough. The penguins decided that it was either starve to death, or jump form the floating ice block into the water where the predators were waiting, and chase food. Some will be eaten by the predators, some will be maimed but a some will eat and survive. That's not something that you sell to bankers and bond holders. They need it in a Excel sheet, with all numbers adding up, being them beings that can' think laterally and have Cartesian square mindsets. That doesn't take away the fact that feeding the bodies is necessary. So they took an wait and see approach before the lunge. But we knew that taking the plunge was needed and no one wanted to be the first penguin to jump. The trigger for the jumping was WLAN gaining respectability and CMDA being implemented countrywide in Thailand. Not laboratory tests under controlled conditions. Not Isle of Man, micronetwork. Not Monaco city-sized network. But a full blown countrywide network. Brussels article depicts the ready set go stage before the plunge. The penguins are saying now: "On the count of three!" Now they have to plunge into the cold water and Darwinism will take control from now on.

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (21891)	8/25/2002 11:45:46 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 34857

Network sharing according to Elmatador: Share the physical, not the logical. We have those 900MHz GSM networks with Base Terminal Stations (BTS) spaced 3-5Km apart. 3G requires BTS stations spaced 750m apart (not exact numbers just to give an idea of the whole thing). To build 3G operators have to fill in the blanks. So they created a single database of all BTS sites and looking into it they see how much of the blanks, from a coverage perspective are already covered if they use all the BTS sites already there. Not many will remaining to be acquired and leased. Them operators will combine their bits over the an integrated backhaul network, making significant savings in terms of time and money. At the end of the backhaul (today's Mobile Switching Centers MSC) the GMS networks are already interconnected. Operators will just co-locate their 3G headends there and will do whatever they want with their bits arriving there. They would be sharing the physical part of the network. Not the logical.