How much data bandwidth can a 3G gsm cell tower can support?

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Published on 2010-03-18T15:46:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 16:01 UTC
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I was always wondering how many simultaneous users can a 3G tower supports with its data rates?
I mean they advertise 28.8Mb/Sec for the 3G Data but in reality if a lot of people use it say 10 , it wont give 288Mb/Sec bandwidth.
I didn't find anywhere where such information is published so I thought to ask here.
Don' know why the cell operators keep it such a secret :)

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