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To: Bubba who wrote (3025)	11/4/1997 10:33:00 PM
From: Arnie Doolittle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10227

Untech Bubba, I'd like to read the article because I have a different understanding. I'm told that iDEN has an advantage over pcs because of its 800 mhz position. How so? Cell sites can be further apart. But bandwidth is bandwidth and you can only squeeze what the current technology will allow over the same air. Thus, the 2.4x equivalent must apply to NXTL's cell site coverage advantage over the other guys rather than being able to squeeze more calls over bandwidth. So there's a cost advantage but not a capacity advantage. Remember that iDEN is 3:1 over analog for telephony and 6:1 over analog for direct connect, while CDMA claims greater capacity, the practical size of which is still widely debated. So those providers using cdma may/will have a capacity advantage over iDEN tdma. As a nontechie, I'm only guessing but I don't think that your equivalency figures are right. Spectrum is spectrum, as far as capacity is concerned, no matter if its 800 mhz or higher. Techless and Tactless Arnie