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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (26175)	8/28/2002 11:38:47 AM
From: kech	Respond to of 196713

I was thinking that the article emphasized that even if there is no killer app and revenues don't spike with WCDMA (as was expected perhaps when the auctions took place) it least it gives added capacity to networks that are close to the max with available spectrum. I agree that they can't afford to subsidize handsets, but for every high end business user who buys a WCDMA handset (at 21 mhz in Europe) that is one less user taxing the 900 mhz spectrum. So capacity is added just from the switch alone. In addition, any data applications on GPRS will suck up capacity so WCDMA is the only way to take care of data needs if data actually gets used extensively given available spectrum.