consider, which will affect the planning of the cell: General coverage. This needs to include HSDPA coverage in the whole area and the impact of UL and mobility should be considered. In case SHO is not supported, additional planning of HO based on the DCH is needed. Hotspot coverage. This aims to concentrate the service only in certain areas, without the stress of service continuity. Indoor solutions. These focus on providing the service to certain customers and specific office locations. In this case throughput requirements may be more important and typically cells can manage higher bit rates. Some of the conditions that may help achieve good indoor coverage can be good isolation from the macro cell layer, a dedicated RF carrier, a high number of antennas and being able to allocate high power to the HSPDSCH. In any case, the deployment strategy may have different phases, depending on the DCH traffic load, expected HSDPA traffic load and HSDPA throughput requirements. The objective is that in low loaded networks one single carrier can share HSDPA + DCH. However, in high load areas and hotspots dedicated HSDPA carriers should be added. In the case of a shared carrier, power allocated to HSDPA, priority of HSDPA over NRT DCH traffic, impact of higher interference on the DCH and impact of SHO areas should be considered. In the case of a dedicated carrier, the second carrier can be fully dedicated to HSDPA; however, at least some resources for the DCH may be needed in order to deal with a lack of SHO and control cell load. For detailed Node B and lub configurations and RNC planning, Node B and lub configurations should be decided based on the HSDPA deployment strategy and the cell average throughput requirements. The cell capacity and lub configuration should be done independently for each BTS, based on the assumptions. In addition, RNC planning is essential when HSDPA is introduced in the network. Since the capacity required by HSDPA users is higher than for the R99 users, the effective RNC capacity would be reduced