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To: elmatador who wrote (48143)	4/3/2009 11:47:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 219996

Sharing hardware often makes sense. In NZ, the oil companies share a refinery, which has public shareholding too, but they also import some products on their own account to their own storage. They also share a pipeline from the refinery to Auckland as well as storage and distribution facilities in Auckland. Where it makes sense, they might as well share cyberphone towers too. They could still have their own base stations and antennas but they might not bother with that if their functionality is going to be much the same. But as the cost of sites, towers and base stations continues to decline, it makes less sense to share facilities. It seems silly for a town which needs one base station to have 5 different companies each with their own facility if they are offering the same technology. Mqurice