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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5369)	9/26/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 12823

"The ability to combine fiber and wireless to reach small- and medium-sized businesses gives us an enormous advantage over companies that are either all-wireline or all-wireless," asserts NextLink spokesman Todd Wolfenbarger. In the wireline mode, he notes, the company can cost-justify extending fiber to buildings only about a quarter of a mile from the fiber rings it is installing throughout the metro regions of the country, which would mean it would have to lease T-1 facilities from telcos for deeper reach into these markets if it didn't have access via wireless broadband. "Wireless gives us buildings two-and-a- half miles away from our rings and allows us to own the facilities," Wolfenbarger says. Eventually, he adds, the company will be able to extend the reach deeper, possibly moving fiber to the first points of wireless connection as the revenue streams build, and shifting the wireless transmitters further out to encompass ever more territory. Combining fiber and wiress to reach small and medium size business should give a real boost to metro DWDM