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To: gdichaz who wrote (1733)	4/7/1999 8:56:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 34857

Chaz, Re-read my post in the context of plain English and business economics. As time goes on the infrastructure costs become negligible (considering the initial GSM infra has been installed over 10 years already, i.e., initial cost over operating life). As for your second point, did I say it would be cheaper? I seem to recall that I wrote something along the lines that the new spectrum would allow a 2G system (GSM) and 3G system (WCDMA) to run side-by-side (something not applicable to the USA for cdmaOne operators). Surely this means an operator would have more overall subs, although the initial cost will be dearer, overtime it will become near to zero (as above, initial costs over operating life). That operator would then have a business advantage, wouldn't they? Has that enlightened my comments further? I hope so. Suggest the same thing as you did ;-) Regards, Mika