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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (6196)	1/4/2000 4:14:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

I suppose Globalstar is a last-mile technology [last 1414km actually and more near the horizon] so it's okay to mention it here. Actually, I don't agree that there will be difficult times ahead for Globalstar. My concern is that it will do only half as well as it could. I'm sure it will be a great success. A shame it won't be the fantastic success it could be by very low-priced minute marketing, driving competitors to the wall before they get off the ground and creating a huge customer base in a short time. There has been some share price bumpiness as the faltering launch has bumbled along, but now Globalstar seems to have things underway in some regions. Regarding AirFiberInc and Lucent, lasers are cheap [I suppose] so it seems that there could be multipath lasers, so if one beam is broken, the other would still get through. Or, if a bit of data is lost, the receiver could ask that it be resent from the original source, which would be no big deal when bandwidth is in exabits per second or whatever it's going to be. If there's fog or rain, then HDR, or VOFDM, or <WaveACCESS(r) high-speed (11 Mbit/s), point-to-point and point-to-multipoint outdoor wireless networking systems for large corporate complexes and campuses, including access to local Internet Service Providers (ISPs). WaveACCESS is an economical and reliable alternative to leasing phone lines or running cables between buildings > could take over for a while. Do you think airfiberinc.com has any advantage over Lucent's fibre? Qualcomm was happy to put some money in. Thanks for your advice, Maurice