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To: Joe NYC who wrote (20689)	1/3/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Jozef - Don't they typically have more than on one 1.25 MHz channel? I do not actually know, but someone on this board earlier said that generally the CDMAOne carriers are only using one channel. If you think about CDMAOne and its soft handoff feature this makes sense. You wouldn't want one basestation operating with two channels and all the rest operating with just one. So either your whole system will tend to be two channels or one channel. Is 150K expense per channel? No, that is an approximate per-basestation cost using publicly available numbers for setting up a large one-channel system. As such it includes pro-rata MSC costs, and it although it would go up for a two channel system it wouldn't double. Maybe $225K. Also, why is wireless industry so concerned about the peak use? All, right, some calls will be lost until they add another cell. What's the bid deal? America Online didn't care, and look where they are now? As Gregg has hinted, Sprint is, to some degree, doing this. But it needs to be remembered that phones are different than ISP's. If you don't get on the web now, the same stuff will be there in an hour, and rarely is e-mail more time critical than 1 hour. The same is not true of a phone - you are trying to get ahold of another individual. I was always wondering how wide are the 800 MHz bands and PCS A, B, C, D, E and F blocks. I don't know off-hand, but it's easy enough to find out. Just check the FCC site - its in there or one of its links. Clark