Purchase Solution

Wireless Communication Problem Set

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

1. When the FCC conducted the original A and B block PCS auction, what were the companies that won the license for Cleveland Ohio? What is the MTA number for Cleveland? How many pops were covered by the license?

2. Who was the winner original high bidder(s) for the D-Block auction for Houston BTA? What was the BTA number? What MTA includes the Houston BTA?

3. If Nextel has a monthly ARPU of $62, what is an estimate of the annual revenue for Nextel?

4. What was the Churn for Verizon wireless as of their latest SEC filing? If this figure is a quarterly churn, how many subscribers would Verizon lose next quarter?

5. A typical walkie talkie uses what type of duplex technique?

6. What is the MOS of a GSM AMR codec operating in 12.2 mode and a C/I of 10 db?

7. What are the major differences between a waveform coder and a vocoder? What is coder used in wireless standards

8. Which Modulation technique has the worse noise immunity?

9. How many wireless licenses are available currently in the city of Dallas, Texas in the Cellular and PCS bands? Exclude any pending license relocation.

10. What types of Error correction codes are used in wireless systems? What is the difference between them? Which has the highest gain?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

Solution contains answers, calculations, explanations and references where applicable for each question in the problem set.

Solution Preview

1. When the FCC conducted the original A and B block PCS auction, what were the companies that won the license for Cleveland Ohio? What is the MTA number for Cleveland? How many pops were covered by the license?

Ameritech Wireless (A Block)
AT&T Wireless PCS (B Block)
The MTA number for Cleveland is 16.

Ref: http://www.safecomprogram.gov/admin/librarydocs/csar1appj.pdf

2. Who was the winner original high bidder(s) for the D-Block auction for Houston BTA? What was the BTA number? What MTA includes the Houston BTA?

SprintCom Inc.
BTA number is 196
Houston MTA includes the Houston BTA

Ref: http://www.safecomprogram.gov/admin/librarydocs/csar1appj.pdf

3. If Nextel has a monthly ARPU of $62, what is an estimate of the annual revenue for Nextel

Annual revenue = Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) x 12 x No. of users
= $62 x 12 x 13.9 million
= 10341.6 million dollars
= 10.34 billion dollars

4. What was the Churn for Verizon wireless as of their latest SEC filing? If this figure is a quarterly churn, how many subscribers would Verizon lose next quarter?

According to S&P Research, in 2004, Verizon has averaged a monthly churn rate of under 2%. Verizon has ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Exponential Expressions

In this quiz, you will have a chance to practice basic terminology of exponential expressions and how to evaluate them.

Multiplying Complex Numbers

This is a short quiz to check your understanding of multiplication of complex numbers in rectangular form.

Geometry - Real Life Application Problems

Understanding of how geometry applies to in real-world contexts

Solving quadratic inequalities

This quiz test you on how well you are familiar with solving quadratic inequalities.

Probability Quiz

Some questions on probability

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Communication Networks, Internet in Business

    The wireless revolution and its elements have also been defined.// The communication network is a set of infrastructure that is used to allow two or more computers or devices to communicate with one another (Rappaport, 2009).

  • Wireless Communication to Replace Wired Communication

    300045 Wireless Communication to Replace Wired Communication Wireless communication is everywhere. Do you think eventually it will replace wired communication?

  • A Proposal to Implement a Wireless Network Connection

    Statement of Problem: Delicious Designs is a retail clothing store that aims to improve communication and operations between its central offices and other divisions through out the organization.

  • Telecommunications Industry

    IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards concerning with the Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and the technologies involved.

  • Advantages and Disadvantages of four primary types of LANs

    This causes a problem if two devices try to communicate at the same time. The token bus solves this problem, because it receives messages in a set order (upon receiving the token). This method is often used in manufacturing.

  • Radio Systems

    But it is not vulnerable to timing problems unlike the TDMA, and is not sensitive to near-far problem unlike in CDMA. TDMA has an advantage of using only one carrier frequency during communication.

  • Why Developing Software for Wireless Devices is Challenging?

    Wireless middleware: Links wireless networks to application servers. b. Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): A set of communication protocols that enables wireless devices to "talk" to a server on a mobile network. c.

  • protocol and network switching device

    Router---------------->Wireless Cards The modern Switch act as a Gateway for Internet, Bridge for two networks Wired & Wireless, and it is faster than Hub as it allows communication only among users requires communications.

  • Implementation and management plan for a wireless network

    417935 Implementation and Management Plan for a Wireless Network Develop an implementation/management plan for a wireless network including defining the organizational problem(s) like organization goals or communication issues that the wireless network

  • Corporate Governance Strategic Management

    VZW is dedicated to supplying full and open communication to its customers, employees and investors (Verizon Wireless, 2015).

View More Related Solutions