No Cingular 3G in Denver until 2007 b/c of spectrum

Turning off TDMA will definately give them more spectrum, I'm not sure whether that will be enough though.

-Jay

 

Cingular in Denver has 45 MHz

25 MHz Cellular
10 PCS C block (under affilate Edge Wireless)
10 PCS D block

All they need to do is have Edge lease the spectrum to them and use it for WCDMA that will fix the problem and they don't need to wait to for TDMA and AMPS to be shut down. :browani:

I think Bill would agree Cingular has dropped the ball too many times in the Denver Metro.

Problem with WCDMA is that is uses 5 MHz spead and CDMA 2000 only uses 1.25 MHz spread. SO you would need at least 10 MHz (5 base to phone and 5 phone to base).

 

we have a simalar problum here in okc. the fcc made cingular sell the att stuff so now we got no 3g,

 

Cingular decided in Auction 58 to have the Affiliate Edge Wireless bid for all licenses since Edge qualified for buying all licenses.
The same was true with T-Mobile having Cook/Inlet do the buying for them.
Verizon and Cricket did the buying for licenses the FCC would allow them to buy and had an affiliate to buy those that they could not buy.

Verizon in Auction 35 did not want an affiliate so the licenses that only small companies could do the biding Verizon could not win any of those.

The AWS auction the summer/fall did not have any licenses that were restricted to small companies to do the bidding.

 

I believe another reason for the lack of 3G is Cingular had to stop work on the towers due to money issues, there is a thread on this & I will try to find it. It appears they have gone over their allocation for the year & part of the theory is the pending AT&T/BellSouth Merger & they want to get that completed 1st.
This would match the article about them being back in full swing by early 07 on adding 3G to all over the U.S.

Here is the link to the thread, if you click on the OP's link the article is long but gives a lot of information, as well as the rest of the thread. http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/wireless-news/58462-cingulars-cold-q4-could-hurt-contractors.html

 

Hibby;

WCDMA actually uses 3.84Mhz of spectrum to make it work ( it doesn't really need the full 5Mhz) but you can do both Data & Voice at the same time that's why it needs the 3.84 wide channel.

 

Cingular will have to clear out the some of the 850Mhz to do UMTS in Denver first, so if they have installed Node B's then they are closer and you think to turning it on (Maybe 1st quarter 2007) which is only 2 months away.