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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: David Klein who wrote (8471)9/13/2000 10:35:07 AM
From: elmatador   of 12823
 
Time to say good bye to the WLL 3-letter acronym (TLA).

A few years back, mid nineties European came with the DECT standard and WLL was born (that is this site of the swamp).

The makers of WLL are exactly the same makers of fixed line and GSM. The potential of a poorman's GSM was good. We learned a lot from the WLL roll outs. Mainly that there were (and still is) a huge repressed demand for telephony in the developing world. The waiting list.

GSM kept getting its prices lower killing in its way any technology that it faced. Iridium corpse is still warm.

In its wake was WLL DECT, PHS (isn't I-mode based in PHS?, I think it is). The GSM juggernaut saw the potential for waiting list and knew that GSM 2G would be obsolete by 2 and 1/2G and 3G.

The GSM crowd devised a new way of using GSM: Here is born a new TLA. FMC Fixed-Mobile Convergence. We will have this smaller cell dual band phone which makes local calls as a kind of WLL terminals but once you move you are in plain GSM world.

Wireless technology having a better price-performance than fixed line will eventually replace wired networks as a means of carrying voice.

Now what we -who sell and build that stuff- have to do dump 2G all over the place into Brazil's, Turkey's, Indonesia's and Peru's of this world.

That's what we are doing right now.
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