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To: engineer who wrote (25534)	3/30/1999 12:31:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

engineer, then why aren't they doing that now?

To: engineer who wrote (25534)	3/30/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Robert Sheldon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

I think you forget the concept of overlay. You bet! A very interesting study was done by the folks at Andersen Consulting, Detecon, and Telemate wherein the idea of CDMA overlay of GSM in "hot spots" was the clear solution both in terms of economics as well as capacity. I only have a hardcopy of the report, DTD 02/16/1998. Perhaps someone could throw up a link? To those who have read the report let me head you off at the pass . . . I understand that operational expenditures for the first year is higher than GSM (150%) but for GSM-CDMA 13 kb/s and GSM-CDMA 8 kb/s, yearly operational expenditures thereafter are less than 1/2 as expensive as GSM (I suspect the economies will become marginally better as ERICY ramps up production). Sooooo . . . Please do not ambush me! I am not an Engineer!