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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8470)	9/13/2000 9:42:05 AM
From: David Klein	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

...My guess is WLL is falling off to the side because of all the mobile wireless players trying to connect the world... Guess again...excerpts from a large PDF file called Latin America Information Technology Report at infoserv2.ita.doc.gov Source:U.S. Department of Commerce dated 4/2000. Also Mexico is a close second, keep an eye on Telcel for a large WLL roll out. Wireless local loop The use of wireless local loop (WLL) will grow considerably since ANATEL authorized the 64 mirror" companies to use WLL to offer basic telephony services starting in late 1999." Some operators have begun to offer voice over WLL. The "mirror" companies are eager to use wireless technologies to build out their networks rapidly, with lower installation and implementation costs, to compete more effectively with the privatized TELEBRAS companies. Industry observers state that the rollout in Brazil is the largest such implementation of WLL in the world. ANATEL predicts that up to one third of the fixed lines set up over the next five years will be WLL, constituting a market worth approximately $5 billion. U.S. suppliers of WLL technologies should be quite competitive, since components for WLL networks are not available locally. Fixed wireless Internet is not widely used Although the mirror telecommunications operators have deployed WLL to some degree, their WLL services currently are restricted to voice. Industry observers state that operators do not yet have the capabilities to offer data over WLL. One industry expert posited that the telecommunications operators may continue to focus on voice over WLL for the near term, given the large demand for basic voice services in Brazil.