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To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (7551)	1/25/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: qdog	Read Replies (1) of 152472

JIm, I was never convinced about the C block (said so in my other life and other thread). It seem at the time to me to be too much spectrum coming on line. Still does. It also appear to be way too expensive in license fee's for these undercapitalized startups. However, there is a strategy that could be employed and that is of wireless Internet services as enhancement to the present PCS system (something that Viterbi talk about an additional cell to handle the higher speed data requirements) . As it is, it's unused 15 Mhz that could have been better utilized by better capitalized companies. I also believe it to be a viable competitor to local access wireline, but not in it's present cost per POP to startup companies. Possibly the FCC should take a page from Interior ( oil companies pay a royalty on production form federal lands and offshore) and charge a royalty fee based on usage; i.e. $01 per minute, and forego the one time charge for license. In it's present situation and form, it isn't go to work.

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