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To: kech who wrote (39029)	1/30/2004 1:40:05 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197032

The issue of course is not whether WCDMA can cover rural areas but it is whether anything at 2.1 GHz is too expensive to use to cover rural areas. The difference between the number of base stations required at 2100MHz and 1900MHz is about 23% according to Qualcomm. qualcomm.com This is versus the 225% increase that is needed when you go from 800MHz to 1900Mhz. If PCS has managed to put in decent rural coverage and still compete with Verizon (and I think they have), I dont think that the problems that W-CDMA is going to face at 2100MHz are going to be insurmountable. The 20% increase in base station density coverage that will be needed for W-CDMA, will be compensated by the fact that overall population density is quite a bit higher in Europe than in the US. They dont have to worry about covering huge streches of highways with very few towns. FWIW....eventually, I think that W-CDMA will be downbanded to 800MHz. The operators that dont put EDGE into play, will likely wait a couple of years and complete their roll-outs with W-CDMA at 800MHz. Slacker