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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (6200)	1/4/2000 5:36:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks Frank, yes, I meant the laser system, not the fibre [just a few bits went awry in my free brain-space]. That shows the importance of feedback loops. I realize HDR and non-laser solutions would provide only critical support during an outage, but figure that's better than nothing. At least voice and some images could squeeze through until the flock of pigeons had passed. I presume that since Qualcomm put money into AirFiber Inc, there is some merit in AirFiber's competitive position, or they'll be an OEM maker for Lucent as you say. A bit like NextWave, Globalstar, and QPE were set up by Qualcomm, to do a special job which Qualcomm wanted done, AirFiber could provide the bits and pieces which Lucent needs for their system and that would help Qualcomm get cheap Web access to the point where their HDR or cdma2000 would take over for mobile users. I suppose a critical juncture would be the conversion of the signal coming out of the laser stream into an HDR signal for mobile users and perhaps that's the point where Qualcomm thinks they should be involved to ensure the interaction is excellent. Qualcomm is climbing upstream the data flow! I suppose lasers to Globalstar satellites wouldn't be out of the question either. That would save on some spectrum but maybe spectrum going up isn't an issue. There would need to be some onboard processing too, instead of the bent pipe technology. Maybe that wouldn't matter. Maurice PS: Thanks Bernard. With Constellation2, 3 and 4, I suppose Globalstar will be up to HDR speeds. 384kbps has been planned for Constellation2 for some time and maybe that will be easily upgradeable to 1 megabit per second [or whatever the multiple will be] by the time they launch in maybe 3 [or 4] years.