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Technology Stocks : Paul Allen's Wired World -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard James who wrote (46)	7/3/1999 11:02:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361

Is Wired World investing in Wireless? Yes. Along with WCOM (38%), Allen is a major (49%) owner of MCOM. metricom.com By mid-2000, Ricochet should be commercially available in following metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington, DC. Current rollout plans call for a total of 46 metropolitan areas to gain Ricochet coverage by mid-2001. Keep in mind that Ricochet is available today at speeds up to 28.8 kbps in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Washington, DC, and parts of New York City. The service is also accessible from 12 national airports. ... The network consists of radio transceivers (Microcell Radios) mounted to street lights or utility poles, Wired Access Points (WAPs), which collect and convert the RF packets for transmission to the wired IP network backbone through multiple high-speed connections. The network operates within the license-free portion of the Radio Frequency spectrum and incorporates Metricom's patented frequency-hopping mesh architecture.