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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3770)	11/29/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Ramsey - What ever happened to WLL? IMO, several things: 1) WLL as a whole does not come with enough price differential to compete effectively with mobile. I've poo-poo'd this in the past, but there is some truth to it. 2) WLL does not need standardization to the same degree as mobile (for obvious reasons) and thus the market is much more fractured (there are hundreds of little 'standards')and the Q gets less. 3) Typically countries legislate different rules for WLL then for mobile, and typically the WLL stuff is regulated in a fashion more similar to wireline (anti-competitive, nationalistic monopolies) than mobile. I'm sure that there are other reasons as well. Any ideas? Clark

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3770)	11/30/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

In those cases wireless would be good because nobody would have to learn the tehcnology before thy built he building. the person who wanted the access could add it by paying a little more later and get the services they want. there are many schemes for indoor wireless. A combo of HDR with bluetooth could possiblly be the cheapest, although not the fastest. A fixed 2.4 GHZ or 5GHZ wireless systemw ith small fixed antennas could also be the answer, but those are line of sight.