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To: DenverTechie who wrote (1629)7/21/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: Jim Lurgio   of 12823
 
DenverTechie,
Thanks for the response and I couldn't agree with you more when you said the Wireless Local Loop makes a lot of sense for the areas of the world that are not wired. My interest has led me to a company called Interdigital Communications (IDC ) and the strategic alliance they have formed with Siemens/Samsung and now Alcatel.

The consortium demonstrated their B-CDMA product at Cebit 98 and are now putting up trials systems. They claim they can do voice , video and data at ISDN speed for Internet service. While most companies have their sights on improving the infrastructures such as we have in the USA the consortium is looking at the masses that have never made a phone call. First offering will be a fixed WLL and then later neighborhood roaming and eventually full roaming .

Samsung is building a trial system in Chonqging China and Interdigital will start a trial system this fall in Iowa for Pioneer holdings who is partially owned by MCI.

I found DanS's comment " We are, however, affected by line-of-sight. You must be in line-of-sight to our transmission tower. (70-90% of Portland is in line-of-sight to our tower.), very interesting too. A small company that has yet to have it's IPO named Worldwide Wireless has the same problem with line of sight only to a much greater extent and has said they will use Interdigital's B-CDMA to afford umbrella coverage to reach more of their customers as well as provide more channels . Later plans call for Internet and voice .

Regards

Jim
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