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To: Xenogenetic who wrote (424)	11/21/1999 10:48:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

re: wireless towers Adam, thanks for those very kind words. And a warm welcome to you, too! ----- Concerning your interests in wireless tower structures, I think that we've only seen the tip of the 'berg thus far. This has been an interest of mine ever since Cellularvision attempted to get something going about eight years ago in an adjacent neighborhood of mine in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn. At the time CAI Wireless, with their pioneer license in hand, set out to deliver cellular-based TV programming over a limited range. ------ Since then, the promise of other last mile wireless schemes has always loomed big in terms of futures, but we've not seen anything yet compared to what we're about to see, I believe, when the avalanche effect kicks in --which, in my estimation, should be within the next eighteen to twenty four months, possibly beginning as early as the middle of next year. You might be interested in knowing that there is a tower board here in SI at: "Towers: Wireless, Broadcast, Microwave and Teleports" Subject 31215 During the great rush to cellular and then to PCN/PCS in the early- to mid- Nineties, facilities management schemes were devised by real estate interests which laid down the precepts and precedents, rules of trade, so to speak, for many of today's tower rental and leasing practices. Shared facilities spaces and environmentals (power, air conditioning, ups, fire protection, etc.) in large buildings and atop erected towers are pretty much defined already in the field for the known forms of transmitter equipment, air interfaces and antenna arrays, safe spacing distances between tenants' dishes, etc. If satellite services pick up in the delivery of TV, I doubt that it will impact last mile fixed station wireless schemes used for 'net access very much. If satellite picks up significantly in the interactive access space, however, I would still tend to doubt that it will have any major impact on the expansion of fixed station and residential schemes, but it's an interesting concept to contemplate. Actually, if satellite picks up I would think that it would only add to the acceptance of the wireless model and add impetus to all forms of mobile and untethered schemes, in a gestalten way. Let's see what others here think and have to say. Thanks for asking. Regards, Frank Coluccio