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To: bananawind who wrote (16395)	10/15/1998 2:18:00 AM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

>Rajala,Are you suggesting that limited mobility service has no >market? If so, can you point us to your sources of market data >suggesting this to be the case? I thought you were into >substance [but maybe its just substances gg]. Substance? "Limited mobility" can be determined in many ways. First we have the pure WLL concept, the POTS of the digital world, the still born brainwave of a MBA who was good on business plans and statistics but had no common sense. Cost: the same as mobile network, benefit: that of a fixed phone. Concept: lousy. Target market: the worst. Is there business: yes. Potential: lousy. Then we have "limited mobility" on a mobile network, which means that the operator can limit the movement of the "mobile" to one cell, which in a busy town can mean couple of blocks, or several cells. Both of them are artificial and offer no cost benefit to the operator although enables to do various cheapo offers for cheapo people. The one cell scenario makes hand-off unnecessary, but I find it exteremely dubious that the cell capacity would be 2.5 times the standard if hand-off is left out as reported on this thread. I am not an expert on CDMA but I would be very surprised if the CDMA would be that inefficient. Then, with several cell limited mobility the hand-off would be there so no infra savings whatsoever. Will these catch on? Yes, I think they will, because the operators are keen to get every marginal customer there is. For equipment manufacturer there is extremely little benefit, for normal customer who has some money and who is not a complete moron no benefit. - rajala