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To: Randall Knight who wrote (48522)	11/8/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) of 152472

Can you imagine the dough to be made if every computer can standard with a built-in wireless modem delivering data at 500 k/sec? I want one. How much are you willing to pay for this luxury? To get 500 Kbs (kilo BIT per second) wireline access on a SDSL line (business grade), you have to pay at least $200 per month, or about $100 residential grade, or about $50 per month asymetric (let's say 500 up, 50 down). This is all wireline, which means that you already have a wire, and the going forward cost is only switching at CO and routing this traffic. With wireless access, you have all of these costs plus a use of the finite chunk of a spectrum. In the meantime, the cost of wireless is about $10 per month plus 10 cents per minute or more from Sprint or Bell Atlantic (coming soon: bam.com for a lot less than 500kbs. So if you spend about 2 hours a day on internet, it would cost you $12 per day, or $360 per month (plus $10 monthly fee). Can you imagine the dough to be made if every computer can standard with a built-in wireless modem delivering data at 500 k/sec? I want one. Depends on how many people can trade monthly payments for a Lexus for a wireless phone, or how many people can afford to add it on top of their monthly Lexus payment. Another way to answer your question is to check how much money Iridium is making. Joe

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