Section 4.1.1 – System Gain
Existing contribution was deleted in Rev 5 of the requirements document.
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The system gain shall be at a minimum 160dB for all devices and terminals at the average per user data rates specified in section 4.1.7 (DL >= 512 Kb/s, UL >= 128 Kb/s) using a 1.25 MHz carrier.
The system gain is defined as the maximum allowable path loss, expressed in decibels (dB), that can be tolerated between the base station antenna and the mobile device antenna while maintaining a bit error rate of 10e-6 for both the uplink and downlink paths.

Rationale
The system gain requirement must be specified in order to quantify the maximum allowable path loss in considering various vendor proposals without considering specifics regarding a particular implementation or network topology.