I agree. From the lack of specific information of Angel, I am assuming it is just another dangling "carrot."
here's some old news on Angel.
wirelessweek.com
General News From CTIA Wireless 98: Feb. 25, 1998
Angel Costs Too High
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Project Angel works fine but still is not cost-effective, the executive in charge of the fixed wireless local access initiative said Tuesday.
But Nick Kauser, AT&T Wireless executive vice president and chief technical officer, said he was optimistic the company would be able to reduce costs and make Project Angel commercially viable by early next year.
Last fall's initial Project Angel trial with 11 "friendly" customers in the Chicago area passed the company's customer satisfaction parameters, Kauser said in an interview at Wireless '98.
But C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T Corp.'s chairman and CEO, has asked his engineers to reduce the cost of deploying the service, Kauser said.
Although optimistic that Armstrong ultimately will give the go-ahead to Project Angel, Kauser said Angel will be one of several enterprises aimed at getting AT&T Corp. back into the local service market.
Depending on factors like population density and geography, "the optimum solution will change and we will probably rely on cable and wireless."
Kauser said AT&T Wireless was "very, very satisfied with the customer reaction" to the Project Angel tests, which ended in mid-December. Pizza-box sized transceivers were mounted under the eaves of customer homes, with two voice lines and one data line wired into the customer's regular phone system.
Kauser said AT&T Wireless' costs for installation, switching and the backhaul ran about $1,000 per unit. Kauser declined to specify the new lower-cost target.
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