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Technology Stocks : CellularVision (CVUS): 2-way LMDS wireless cable.
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To: Hiram Walker who wrote (1339)2/27/1998 9:41:00 AM
From: WTC  Read Replies (1) of 2063
 
Hiram, James, Interesting thoughts on targeting BTAs based on anticipated reality of buildout complexity and cost, and eventual expectations of LOS. I think rain rate is a material issue for infrastructure cost in a business targeted build -- I need a lot more cells in Miami, Atlanta or New Orleans for 99.9% link availablity than I can get away with in the northeast or the southwest -- halve the rain-limited node radius and you have quadrupled the baseline node count (yes, with overlap to enhance LOS, it's more complicated than that, but the impact is significant in my cost analysis, especially in the early years before customer premises equipment costs overtake and swamp out infrastructure costs.) If I was aiming for a residential built for internet access, I might figure 99.2% link availability was plenty good since that would not be a limiting factor in customer web availability, and Miami links get back to ~3 miles.

Looking at incumbent competition is also an interesting angle, but Phoenix becomes the mystery. Here is a unique city for broadband internet access today: US West offers commercial ADSL and COX offers commercial cable modem. Wow! This is not my idea of a market I want to jump in first -- give me a city with pent-up early-adopter demand for broadband access. I put Phoenix on the list just below Wichita for remarkable LMDS bid action.
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