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To: ML who wrote (16725)	10/19/1998 7:13:00 AM
From: Rajala	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

>You wrote: "...the (marginally) higher theoretical capacity of >WLL brings very little savings in rural areas as the the capacity >is not the bottleneck (distance to base station is)." > >You don't give numbers, so I'm not sure how you reach this >conclusion. CDMA WLL will operate with 25km cell radius, if >you use standard phones, with small directional outside >antennas (patch antennas) on the distant homes. > >That ought to work out fine in rural areas. Do you think larger >cell radius is needed? I'm not sure why I bother with this paralyzed mobile concept, the WLL. Anyway, what I meant was that the capacity of a base station is adequate in the rural areas. You generally don't gain anything even if it would be economically viable to, say, increase the capacity by 30%. Lets suppose that some company with no business sense whatsoever decides to bring WLL to some Bolivian village setting. How many sad losers would sign on in a typical cell, for example this 25 km radius? That's like one village with surrounding areas. You would have the shopkeeper, the other shopkeeper, the mayor, the police chief and the drug wholesaler. Maybe a handfull of others. So the capacity would not be a problem. And for argument's sake, lets suppose that in the three neighboring villages there are also WLLs in place. What an utterly brainless concept! Why not a four cell CDMA1 mobile network, for the same amount of money, where the truck driver can call and alert the rear axle has just broken or the passing busload of gringos can roam, call parents and create revenue for the operator. - rajala