I'm writing a book for McGraw-Hill on CDMA Capacity and Optimization and I need some current wireless telephony business-technical knowledge. A friend of a friend thought I might get some help here, so I subscribed to this list. I'm looking for somebody who actually does engineering work in the cellular telephone business to give me the real, live view of how decisions are made in provisioning Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems. My own background is from places like Bell Telephone Laboratories, removed from the day-to-day operation of a system, and my own industry-specific knowledge is almost five years out of date. McGraw-Hill picked my co-author and me because I have a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical relationships involved in wireless telephony and a twenty-year career in decision support and optimization. But I'm not in the wireless telephony field now; I do revenue management for hotels. If my book is going to be relevant to its intended audience, I need to find out some facts. I don't need a lot of precision-- these are "thirty second" questions: The person who really knows will be able to give a pretty good answer in half a minute. I know it's a long list of questions and helping me with two or three of them would be appreciated (and mentioned in the acknowledgements section of the book). My questions: http://www.the-adam.com/stuff/~4a5/queries.dat My background: http://www.the-adam.com/stuff/~letters/resume.pdf My web page: http://www.the-adam.com (just getting it started) Thank you for taking the time to read this far and even more thanks to anybody who can help me out here.