Look what is happening here...Hey Osicom send some of your equipment to these guys (CAWS)....
By Jim Barthold
CS Wireless Systems Inc. will launch high-speed Internet access service to individual and multi-user subscribers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex "within a month" using MMDS wireless downstream and a telephone return, according to a CS executive.
CS is currently concluding a trial that delivered the service to 25 residential and commercial customers in Dallas using General Instrument Corp. and Hybrid Networks Inc. technology. A decision on which vendor's technology will be used in the rollout, or if both will be selected, hasn't been made, said Harry "Nick" Nicholls, CS's VP-new business development.
Nicholls also was vague on other details of the rollout, other than to say that it wouldn't be a test.
"I can't tell you what my target area is going to be because I don't want to tip off the competition and I feel a little hesitant about telling how many units I'm going to deploy because that would give a sense of what speed I'm going at and therefore give my competition the same," he said.
A CS Wireless news release said "the service is available to any location with 'line of sight' to CS Wireless' transmission facility located in central Dallas."
Alan Sonnenberg, CS' vice chairman, first announced the rollout in January, noting that the company also was planning a digital wireless launch in the city. "That'll keep us busy," he said. "We're good, but on the other hand, we don't have the capital to do everything we need to do."
Sonnenberg added: "If I come in with a competitively priced product in digital in Dallas, with a few more channels potentially, multiplexed premiums which they don't offer right now, without the outages and other problems that have hit many of the systems in the Dallas market, I have to tell you, I'm not too nervous."
(April 21, 1997)
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