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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8457)	9/12/2000 4:59:19 PM
From: David Klein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Mike, here is the link biz.yahoo.com Also here are some comments by the CEO from the 7/27/00 conference call concerning the US market for WLL. The US market has been a pleasant surprise for us. I've mentioned the tenfold increase. We have a customer in the US that's talking 500 to 1 million units for national roll-off - roll-out of a competitive access program. This customer plans to offer throughout the United States an FWT for $99 dollars to the customer, they're going to subsidize it. And they are going to offer the customer 49.99 per month for all the long distance and local calls they want to make. We have another customer who is a large rural network operator. Volumes there are about 5,000 a quarter and growing. This customer has competitive access program that is eligible for universal service subsidy from the FCC in three states. And it's got applications pending in 16 states. And the volumes that we're currently experiencing with the customer are only three states, one of which just started. So, when they get all 16 states on line, we expect this to be a big piece of business.

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8457)	9/12/2000 7:32:09 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

>>>LAN Broadband Wireless Once it's here and now, it'll save a lot of money because desktops don't have to be hard-wired. And you can walk around the campus area with a laptop. A prime example of a standard in this sector is Bluetooth. Lot's of ideas being tossed around today and there appears to be no clear winner yet. Lots of systems are being rolled out today in the 1MB to 10MB range. But nothing appears to be dominating that I'm aware of.<<< Don't forget the Apple/Lucent implementation of 802.11. That wireless LAN operates at 11Mbps and is actually in significant use as AirPort. It is more "real" than Bluetooth just now; is cheap ($300 for a base station, $100 for a Mac compatible wireless card); and will accommodate PC's as well as Macs using a PCard ($179).