# 34638 26-May-2009 16:39
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The price quoted above is for fixed line. For the competitor's cellular data products you would get 2 - 3 GB for that price.
We find customers who require really large data caps are often downloading 24/7. This uses up much more of the cellsite's resources than we would like. P2P applications in particular are creating multiple TCP streams which uses up the air interface allowance for that user. If these users move to a marginal signal area, it is even worse, as we need to also send a lot of error correction with the payload. If a lot of users signed up on a plan like this it could affect the experience of those customers who are using their connection in a burstable manner. The air interface is the main constraint and is the hardest and most expensive thing to increase capacity on.
Therefore, we prefer to sell those customers our fixed line plans www.bundleofjoy.co.nz 
as the technology is better suited to their application.
Having your own network doesn't necessarily reduce your costs. There are large costs in cellsite leases, linking the cellsites together, backhauling the traffic nationally and providing international bandwidth. There is also an enormous capital investment that has an associated cost of capital.
The number of users per cell tower depends on distribution of the plans they are on, and the type of cell tower. Our cellsites can have between 1 and 9 NodeB's (basestations) which directly affect their capacity.
Regards,
Woosh
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