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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (5448)	4/21/2000 7:57:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 14638

Copied from the Wi-Lan thread Courtesy of Kilobite from SH Alberta, May 2000 ¸ Silvan Communications Inc. Focus on Telecommunications Wireless a go-go Iain Grant, managing director of Yankee Group in Canada, believes Canadians will see the full advent of wireless data transfer by Thanksgiving, especially considering a recent find by IDC Canada, which predicts that by 2003, 16.6 million Canadians will be wireless subscribers. A rapid increase in wireless data users is possible utilizing equipment from manufacturers such as Wi-LAN Inc., Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies. Wi-LAN has developed a line of wireless modems, ethernet bridges and connectivity devices that will start to move into the consumer and business mainstreams. Nortel has formed a policy known as IP Everywhere that allows for Internet access anywhere, anytime. The company's Open IP Environment is a portable realtime software suite that provides components to product vendors and developers to help them design and build Internet-enabled devices. Lucent has developed a wireless networking system known as WaveLAN. Like Nortel's IP everywhere, WaveLAN provides for anytime, anywhere networking connectivity. Another wireless achievement comes from Israel's Foxcom, which has found a solution to the loss of cellular signals underground and in concrete buildings. The company places a transmitter in an outdoor location near the questionable area. It then changes the RF signal into a digital one, sends it down a fibre cable and turns it back into an RF signal -- via another transmitting device -- where it can then reach cell phones in the bad environment. Foxcom has wired Vancouver's airport and the Molson Centre arena in Montr‚al. These developments will come together to bring more wireless to more users. AARON EVANS aevans@silvan.com