To: engineer who wrote (87185 ) 10/30/2009 6:23:45 PM From: pcstel 4 Recommendations Respond to You make a bunch of assumptions, none of which are very true in real practice. First of all, the carrier will use 10 MHz or 20 Mhz PERIOD. Most LTE chipsets being designed only go to a 10 MHz profile rethink-wireless.com so your adding of double the spectrum was for nothing. Take the 60 MHz that Nextwave has. Even if they wanted to deploy it, nobody makes an RF radio to service it. so what exactly do you on Wall street get from the 2.3GHz spectrum that COULD be used to suplement Clearwire, but will go unused for the next 10 years. NOTHING. alvarion.com But what you do not understand is that you do not get the entire BW Of a cell site, no matter what. You have been a victim of the Hype once again Now I can spend $1B on the spectrum and get you double, or I can specifically understand that there needs to be an additional capacity gain at your block and add a cell for $20k that gets YOU all 10 Mbps. If I am a working carrier trying to grow revenue, which one makes more sense? Not to mention that if you bought something like the 700 MHZ block there are NO operating RFICs to work your radio in the lower A block and in fact the people who did (COX and RCA) are having trouble even getting a handset maker to pay attention to them. hraunfoss.fcc.gov Qualcomm Brings the First 700MHz 3G Mobile Chip news.softpedia.com so just what did they get for that $750M they paid for it nation wide? Did you get double your cpapcity from that buy? NOPE. Would you get more than double if I put a micro cell outside your building? YEP. I know which one I would do IF I were De La Vega.
