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To: Jim Parkinson who wrote (2729)	1/29/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Jim, As the subscriber base builds, so does the network, so fewer dropped calls and lower power demand from your battery as the signal paths will be shorter. But he sounds as though he was saying more crowds using a certain base station would be good, which is wrong. The fewer the better from the user's point of view. Too few of course and the network will be switched off for lack of custom. As crowds build, the noise in a base station increases, so handsets get their power turned up to maintain contact. This causes the cell size to shrink, dropping distant handsets in preference for those closer whose full strength signal is stronger than the distant one which has the same full strength signal. Hence the concern about some handsets which were too powerful and could shout their way past the others - good for them but not for everyone else. Hence power output per handset is limited. For a given network, you'll get your best quality and most wideranging calls with least drain on your battery with least dropping of calls in the dead of night, when everyone else is asleep and the cdmaOne Babes are searching far and wide for a customer with little interference from neighbouring noisy and polluting radio sources which should also be asleep. Maurice