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To: engineer who wrote (30412)	5/21/1999 5:21:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 152472

Competition Heads up! indranet.co.nz OFDM [Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing] and now this. These people are planning on usurping Qualcomm's CDMA networks. Qualcomm's slogans are "We're Building The Wireless World" and "Communication Without Limit" and "The Elegant Solution". Now this bunch of antipodean bandits are hijacking those very slogans. In fact, they are hijacking my nanotechnology idea of sprinkling picobasestations all over a city, only a third of which might survive the first rainfall with many being roadkill. The picobasestations would act like a neuronal network. I admit that my suggestion was from the outer limits of what is technically possible today. These Indranet people are more serious and are seeking money. Should I give it to them? The idea is that microbasestations, the size of a shoebox [Not Shaque's] would be fitted to houses and other buildings and they would form a non-hierarchical network along the lines of GG's wide, dumb and cheap. The intelligence would be at the periphery. It is remarkably similar to the 1 April Webnode promotion in SI which got Bidness Wire so upset they sued the perpetrators for having a very good sense of humour and conducting one of the best April Fools Jokes I've seen. BMW do very good ones here [in newspaper advertisements] where they advertize some amazing but credible to the easily gulled new technology. I guess the thing would function too slowly, but maybe not. It might be faster than any other option. Sending signals the quickest route. If it's to round the world, it might dive into the nearest fibre. If just a kilometre away, it would bounce between a few houses in a direct line. Any advice appreciated. Should I sell Mighty Q! Mqurice PS: Yes, I know it reads like a combination of my rants and GG's network theorems, but it is for real!

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