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To: JGoren who wrote (15040)	9/15/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Engineers, Can someone explain to to me in JMD words how increasing power usage increases use of bandwidth. Has it something to do with "Big Hoggs Law of Noise"? I'm sure I'll feel stupid after your done but what the heck, we're all humanous slumberous in one form or another. Thanx, nf PS I tried experimenting with D, C, AA and AAA cells in my QCP-2700 but other than the AAA's not working in Hogg's Hollow, it didn't seem to make much difference.

To: JGoren who wrote (15040)	9/15/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

A Samsung handset won't take up more capacity, but a handset putting out more milliwatts would connect whereas a closer handset with less maximum power output would not. It is a competition for connection in a cdmaOne cellsite, with the distant handsets losing out. Samsung according to this report have gained an advantage by putting out more power so that they are not the one dropped as the cell size shrinks. The handset would consume more electricity and therefore get less battery life, but presumably the tradeoff is worth it to Samsung for improved connection in the competition. I suppose some of you will be now waiting for a tirade on p-----g as a mechanism to ration connections and maintain optimum cell site size, call quality, battery consumption, customer happiness and Leap profitability. I shall disappoint you. Suffice to say that building MastaBlasta handsets to overwhelm the competing handsets is not going to be conducive to the long run attractiveness of cdmaOne. A more elegant solution is desirable. Limiting handset power is not the answer. Charging the right price for connection IS the answer. Then, if somebody a long way beyond the normal cell site range chooses to blast their way through the Australian wilderness to be the chosen connectee, at a higher fee, then that is up to them. Maybe Taichi, Engineer or somebody else will tell me the cell sites won't allow a distant handset to connect - Babe [now replaced by McGwire] knows how far the handset is away by propagation delay. But 'Babe' could limit the cellsite size if it wanted to. Mqurice