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To: Joe NYC who wrote (8451)	1/6/1999 12:21:00 AM
From: Arnie Doolittle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10227

"He contradicts your point that you need more towers for CDMA." Jozef, the reason that cdma requires more towers than NXTL's iDEN is because cdma operates at 1900 mhz and NXTL's iDEN is at 800 mhz. I'm also told that cdma's lower power requires more cell sites than tdma at a given mhz but I don't know that for a fact. When all networks are built out we'll discover the answer. Of course at that point it will be too late from an investment point of view. Regardless, Sprint-PCS will require more cell sites than NXTL to cover the same area due to frequency differences. Arnie P.S. Oops, I see that Mike already answered you. Sorry for the duplication.