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To: engineer who wrote (3780)	11/30/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

Many thanks to engineer, Clark Hare, and Bux for clarifying this issue. One of the characteristics of modern day office management is the need for flexibility, including the need to change partitions, room sizes, and location of desktop computers. I recognize the need for wire or fiber optic lines where very large data transactions occur (e.g., a large payroll operation, or a computer based design and engineering operation such as one might find at Boeing), but my interest was in much smaller operations, typically for an office with up to about 100 people, where business might be transacted away from the physical office building, in field locations, and where the demands for various services might change regularly. As to whether CDMA was intended mainly for mobile rather than fixed locations, I recall that QCOM has claimed almost from the start that it expected a great deal of business from fixed wireless local loops, although that kind of application might be more appropriate in areas where there is little or poor quality wired infrastructure. Quite frankly, as a person who has in the past been constrained by the limitations on where you can plug in a computer in a typical office, I had thought that any wireless capability would create an immediate improvement in efficiency.