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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (3263)3/30/1999 11:21:00 PM
From: Robert T. Miller  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
The best Internet connection I ever had was CAIWireless in Manhattan. They had few customers and two T-1s to the Internet. With 27Mbps wireless to my balcony I had access to all of those T-1s for $50 per month. We set up a server at their headend (Empire State Bldg.) and with the help of the Duck Corp (engine behind Microsoft's NetShow) we were able to broadcast a 3Mbps Video to my apartment in December of 1997. They went bust a few months later. SpeedUs.com SPDE (formerly Cellularvision CWSS) has stopped wasting their spectrum on wireless cable and claims that they can deliver 48Mbps to 95% of Manhattan with LMDS as we peck. That is one channel, they may have over 40. If what they have is what I think it is the future is now.

With CAIWireless (MMDS) being bought up by MCI/Worldcom supposedly so they can eliminate the local loop and transmit directly to the rooftops of Manhattan and most other east coast cities and with McCaw buying up most of the LMDS licenses in the US you wonder just what is going on. Strong hands are quietly accumulating wireless spectrum. The wireless game hasn't even begun yet. Everyone is paying attention to copper the intermediate dead-end solution. And I wouldn't count out fiber. The Canadians are hinting on pervasive FTTH by 2005. Read a little of the Silkroad thread if you want to talk about a bandwidth fiber revolution.

>Not in my lifetime! <

Unless you are a really old man I would bet on fiber and wireless in Manhattan in your lifetime. I win on wireless because it is here right now.
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