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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (57401)	8/26/2014 10:59:06 PM
From: Eric	Respond to of 86355

There isn't really a spectrum problem. Smaller cells and more fibre solves 'the problem' easily and delivers gigabytes of data at high speed and low cost these days. The vast majority of cell sites are not connected with fiber. Less than 10% and only in dense cities where there is already fiber in place. In rural areas which is the majority of the U.S. for example.... fiber doesn't exist! For example in the greater Seattle area 97% of the cell sites don't have fiber. You need to do some more research of how the Cellular system actually ties itself together. Some of my close friends actually designed the systems that AT&T and Verizon use here. Starting over 30 years ago when Motorola's AMPS system first came on the scene. Eric P.S. It's the labor cost of stringing fiber on poles or underground that limits it's installation. The fiber itself is dirt cheap...