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February 10, 2007

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simon cavill

Orange and Voda to Share Networks...

Only a matter of time really. 3G networks have a shorter range from the base stations and in addition there is only so much bandwidth (around 2MB from memory) that each base station can share between all active mobiles in that cell. Voice calls are realtively low bandwidth and proportionally make the most money, but increased data bandwidth requirements from individual devices with things like 3G soon chews that up, so again you need more cells to support a given number of active conversations.

Sharing sites helps both operators maintain coverage without thousands of new planning applications for new aerials that are strongly resisted by people in the area and cost millions in lawyers bills to push through.

Simon
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Dave Ph

Tom: From my reading of the article, yes: their coverage would be identical (assuming the agreement to share the RAN covers all base-stations). Again, from my reading, it looks like they will own their own back-hauls from each cell. It's been years since I looked at 3G designs, but either ATM or IP back-haul will allow VPNs, and hence the maintenance of 'separate core networks'.

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