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To: Greg B. who wrote (12470)	7/16/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: Steve Hamilton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

This capacity number has to due primarily with the air interface portion of the system. Given a selected frequency assignment, one GSM cell could support 100 simultaneous calls, while a CDMA system could support 400 calls within that same frequency assignment. Of course, this is not what happens in actuality. A three sector QCOM BTS can handle over 66 calls plus 18 in soft handoff. Well.... How big is a sector? Are all three pointed in a 10 degree wedge? That figure is merely talking about maximum number of users in one frequency assignment. The rest is up to network hardware. Incidentaly, in a perfect world, one cell with 1000 simultaneous calls would need about 300,000 subscribers. That would be one heck of a big cell!!! <ggg> S