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To: P2V who wrote (735)	10/22/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: Sans Souci	Respond to of 16863

* New all-time high close today for WIN.* Looking very good for next week. IMO, the TSE listing (soon?) will take us to $15 for sure. S/S

To: P2V who wrote (735)	10/22/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Hatim Zaghloul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16863

Mardy, Good question; and thanks for your continued interest and support. Wi-LAN's products operate very much like cable modems; meaning the users share in the overall capacity. We provide the speed; if only one user is on, he can have access to all of it; if ten users all all active, then each will get one tenth of the speed (minus some overhead for the polling or moving between the users); etc. When we say without a degradation of speed, we generally refer to some expectation. This is not the same for any two networks. Tele2 is currently targeting ISDN speeds (128kbps range). Telia is targeting E1 speeds (2Mbps range). Degradation has different meanings for these two networks. We all know that an ISP would sell his T1 (1.54Mbps) many times over. If they had a 30Mbps base station, they could easily put one thousand subscribers counting on the fact that there will never be more than one hundred active (really transmitting and receiving - not just turned on) at any one time. This 100 would be sharing in, say, 17Mbps (after all overheads). This means that they have access to 170kbps during heavy congestion. What I just wrote is technically not accurate but should give a simple guidance to how the networks are designed. Hatim

To: P2V who wrote (735)	10/23/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: SurfForWealth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16863

Hello everyone, It's nice to be a dedicated Wi-LAN shareholder these days!! LOL The story is unfolding very nicely and is very exciting. I managed to add to my position last week @$11.80. Who ever it was who suggested the "Wi-LAN inside" idea, did you get that idea patented? LOL Question for Hatim, is it or will it be possible to allow certain users on the hub who say are willing to pay a higher fee for higher speed to say double their allowed bandwidth, so that they would theoretically have twice the speed as their neighbor? Is this possible with todays cable modems? I currently use Rogers@home cable service and would pay more for greater speed. Cheers!!!