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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (40476)2/16/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: Rob S.  Read Replies (1) of 164684
 
Another interesting development that will have some future impact on the Internet is the development of wireless Internet standards. Motorola, AT&T, Qualcom, Lucent, etc. are developing the standards that will allow internet content to be communicated over standard PCS wireless systems. Enhanced pagers, digital cellular along with laptops and new internet devices will be able to use this communications to provide users with "anytime, anywhere" connection to the internet, perhaps at much higher speed than common wired internet access. We now see wireless service selling for about 10c/minute with little or no premium for long distance. The cost of delivering this service is said to be about 1c-2c per minute and is less than the cost of delivering wired service because of the lower amortized equipment and maintenance costs. What is interesting is that these companies are considering offering free or very low cost internet access to their portal sites but once you venture off to other sites, such as Yahoo! or Amazon (if they haven't agreed to payment of access fees) the user will be charged per minute rates. The AT&T's of the world won't want to cede the value of their infrastructure over to the Internet darlings without extracting the profits.
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