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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: jack bittner who wrote (6108)12/3/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: mrknowitall  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
jack - I wouldn't call it doomed, but the reality of economics enters into the equation rather abruptly when you start talking about redundancies and capacities. Free-air optical systems have some interesting applications, and wireless technologies offer some neat mobile possibilities, but you have to remember that someone has to make money off all of this - which means someone has to pay to use it.

As long as the wire is as ubiquitous as it is, and as long as technology keeps making fools of all those who said no one would ever see dial-up speeds beyond 9600BPS, most people are going to be at the mercy of that wire.

AND - what many people don't take into consideration - the fact is as we build the network with more and more bandwidth, we're going to start seeing hosting bottlenecks, which will just start another never-ending round of faster/cheaper developments on that end.

What a great economic engine!

Mr. K.
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