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To: CommSatMan who wrote (3990)	4/20/1999 10:34:00 AM
From: David Wiggins	Respond to of 29987

CommSatMan, You are quite knowledgeable to be sure, but perhaps you failed to take one thing into consideration. They might just have considered that issue as well as others you have not even thought of before they came up with their numbers. To simply assume that they overlooked something so obvious to you in their calculations seems quite a stretch. Of course, you may have run the numbers from scratch. It would be interesting to see your calculations if you did. Regards, Dave

To: CommSatMan who wrote (3990)	4/20/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: Oliver Schonrock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

CommSatMan Yes, I follow your very clear explanation of how CDMA works. Most of us know that. But how does this affect "temporarily leasing two or more CDMA codes" to increase the data capacity of a handset/base station" ? Yes, it would effectively add another user to the CDMA noise but isn't that what shareholders want? If we have so many users connected that the noise level starts to be a problem then I am sure we will all be very happy with our investment (given we are not giving the minutes away at the time). I am sure between Maurice and the Marketing dicks (ehhh, sorry I mean guys) at G* we can even find an effective way to price that second and third CDMA code for those data hungry mobile users. Now here is another very interesting point. I sense that many people here are quite negative about Teledesic. I am not sure what their reasons are? Company, Bill Gates (that would be a good one for me personally) or technical issues. I do believe that they have an awesome market to address. The next growth phase in the internet is only limited by bandwidth. Could it be costeffective for G* to sell multiple CDMA codes for high speed data connection in outlying areas? Remember that a lot of people are starting to do business from nice, beautifully remote places and they are doing it over the web. Until Teledesic gets off the ground, which is not for quite some time, couldn't G* provide fixed groundstations (or even mobile) for high bandwidth connections in remote places. Say 7 CDMA codes for 64K which is quite good for many people and far exceeds what you can get with a 56K modem over a rural line (I have tried this many times). Yes I agree this will not be competitive once dedicated broadband services (satellite or otherwise) are launched, but with an expected life-span of 7 years (did we agree on that?) shoudn't we make sure we sell every minutes of "G* CDMA noise-space" in whatever way. Regards Oliver