Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
Date: February 8, 2010 6:14:43 PM EST
To: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux
Reply-To: karl () cavebear com

On 02/08/2010 02:14 PM, Brett Glass wrote:
> P.S. -- Oh, and Karl, lest I forget to mention it, any continuous
> connection between a cell site and a client incurs significant overhead.
> The cell has to reserve codes (CDMA), time slots (TDMA), or channels
> (OFDM) for any client with which it has established a conversation, and
> can't continuously do this for every cell phone in the vicinity.

That's the kind of answer I've been looking for - the use of resources that have to be dedicated to the connection 
whether there is data flowing or now.

Thanks.

                --karl--




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