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To: unrealistic_thoughts who wrote (48512)11/7/2005 1:26:26 PM
From: masa  Respond to of 196538
 
"The net benefit is about 1/3rd less frequency is needed for a given deployment, saving money in spectrum auctions, or allowing 3x more capacity to be squeezed from a unit chunk of spectrum, making 3G multi-megabit performance realistic."

Not that simple. GSM needs 3 x 200 kHz channels where CDMA needs one 1.25 MHz channel (minimum deployment)