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To: pat mudge who wrote (13310)	9/15/1999 8:15:00 AM
From: Peppe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18016

Pat, ZO, Nextlink announces an LMDS trial wuth four companies, no NN mention. What's going on ??? Tuesday September 14, 2:01 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release NEXTLINK Field Tests Broadband Wireless On Track for Extensive Deployment in 2000 -- Ericsson Inc., SpectraPoint Wireless, Wavtrace Inc. and Digital Microwave Corporation chosen to participate in field-testing -- BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1999-- NEXTLINK Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:NXLK - news), one of the nation's fastest growing providers of broadband communications services, announced today that it has started field testing its broadband wireless technology in the Los Angeles area. During field testing, NEXTLINK will use broadband fixed wireless equipment from Ericsson Inc. (Nasdaq:ERICY - news), SpectraPoint Wireless, Wavtrace Inc. and Digital Microwave Corporation (Nasdaq:DMIC - news). Wireless point-to-multipoint and point-to-point equipment from these vendors is being tested in several environments to demonstrate fixed wireless integration for extremely efficient use of the NEXTLINK wireless spectrum and fiber facilities. NEXTLINK has been testing broadband wireless equipment in its multi-million dollar research lab in Plano, Texas for the past year. Initiating the field test, NEXTLINK turned on trial customers with a point-to-multipoint wireless hub site directly connected to the company's robust fiber network in the Los Angeles area last week. Following the completion of the field tests, NEXTLINK will offer service to selected Los Angeles customers and begin using the technology commercially by the end of the year. Additionally, NEXTLINK is on track to offer commercial broadband wireless service in the Dallas area by year-end and will aggressively roll out service through a majority of the top thirty markets in the United States next year. ''This is another important step to providing a complete package of end-to-end, broadband communications services to enterprise customers throughout the United States,'' said NEXTLINK Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Hooper. ''We believe NEXTLINK's use of broadband wireless technology to complement our incredibly robust fiber networks and will extend the availability of broadband communications services to many more small and medium sized businesses than ever imagined.'' The broadband wireless access technology will allow NEXTLINK to significantly expand its ''last-mile'' connection capabilities and dramatically increase the number of buildings that can economically be connected directly to the NEXTLINK local and national inter-city networks that are being deployed throughout the United States. Broadband wireless access technology uses small antennas on the top of customers' buildings that send signals to a hub site. The hub then sends the signal through NEXTLINK's robust fiber network to the company's switching equipment that routes the data and voice to local and national inter-city networks. Broadband wireless hub sites will have capabilities to carry data and voice capacity up to OC-3 rates (155 Mbps) in point-to-point configurations; or 672 T-1 (1.544 Mbps) connections to multiple buildings in a point-to-multipoint configuration. ''One of the biggest opportunities in telecommunications today is to provide robust metro fiber networks and high capacity last mile connections to those fiber rings -- especially given that both fiber and broadband wireless solutions offer enormous capacity and cost advantages over the existing copper networks,'' continued Hooper. ''Some in the industry have the ability to provide high capacity last mile connections and some have metro fiber networks. But few, if any, have NEXTLINK's long-term capability and flexibility by owning local fiber networks and a wide array of last mile solutions including direct fiber, broadband wireless, and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) connections to buildings, all connected by a national inter-city fiber network.'' NEXTLINK was founded in 1994 by telecommunications pioneer Craig O. McCaw to provide high quality, broadband communications services to businesses over fiber optic and broadband wireless facilities. Through this unrivaled collection of facilities, NEXTLINK will provide integrated, end-to-end telecommunications solutions to its customers. NEXTLINK is currently serving 45 markets across the United States with high capacity, local fiber optic networks. NEXTLINK is the largest holder of broadband fixed wireless spectrum in North America, with licenses covering 95 percent of the population in the top 30 markets in the United States. NEXTLINK's wireless capabilities will complement and extend the reach of its robust facilities-based local fiber optic networks. Additionally, through the InterNEXT venture beneficially owned by NEXTLINK and Eagle River LLC, NEXTLINK has contracted to have a 16,000-mile, IP-centric, inter-city fiber network built covering 50 cities in the U.S. and Canada. The network is being delivered in segments beginning in late 1999, with completion expected by the end of 2001. Through this unrivaled collection of facilities, NEXTLINK will provide integrated, end-to-end telecommunications solutions to its customers. Cheers, Peppe