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To: JakeStraw who wrote (990)	6/16/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: Robert Sheldon	Respond to of 2702

Wireless growth will not come from merely expanding wireless coverage, it is actually coming from saturating the coverage for applications 3G and beyond. Below is a link to an article-interview with BT's Peter Cochrane, a futurist, BT's chief technologist, and director of the innovative BT Labs, Cochrane makes it his business to determine what will turn into tomorrow's service. But first a quote: “What are your predictions about what we'll need for the changes? Right now, the cellular mobile phone network has cells that are typically 10 to 15 kilometers across. If you get into a city, they may be a couple of kilometers across. We're going to need cells that are 200 and 100 and 10 meters across. We're going to have to put up both microcells and picocells. Instead of having a network that has a lot of very thin parts that lead to bigger parts, it's going to lead to a network that's fat everywhere.” This clearly is the driver behind the explosive growth projections YO YO posted . . . teledotcom.com (It's free)