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To: Ken W who wrote (21720)	11/2/2000 10:51:16 AM
From: Galirayo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29382

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To: Ken W who wrote (21720)	11/2/2000 12:29:59 PM
From: Harold	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29382

ARNX........an opinion please. Harold

To: Ken W who wrote (21720)	11/2/2000 12:30:01 PM
From: KZAP	Respond to of 29382

New Alliance Will Promote Wireless Access to Internet By DAVID BARBOZA October 26, 1999, Tuesday (note: story from last year) A group of leading technology companies said yesterday that they would form an alliance to create products that would allow consumers to get high-speed Internet access through a wireless system within the next year. The consortium -- which is led by Cisco Systems Inc., the giant Internet networking company, and Motorola Inc., the maker of wireless telephone products--is esentially backing an alternative to delivering broadband Internet access through underground cables and wires. The race to bring broadband Internet access to consumers has led to several alliances that promise to deliver that kind of service through satellites, cellular phone networks and standard cable and telephone lines. Now, the group headed by Cisco & Motorola is trying to provide a cheaper and more effective solution to digging up the ground and laying cables: They want to deliver data, voice and video services over the airwaves and directly into buildings and homes that are affixed with antennas or the equivalent of a satellite dish. "This is the technology that is going to take the fixed broadband wireless market into the next millennium," said Steve Smith, director of marketing in the broadband wireless business unit at Cisco Systems, which is based in San Jose, Calif. "This gets consumers Internet access without tearing up the ground." Officials at Cisco Systems said Monday that a group of 10 companies-- Motorola, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Bechtel Telecommunications, Samsung, Toshiba, LLC International, EDS, KPMG Consultion and Pace Microtechonology -- had agreed to create and develop products that use a Cisco technology, one that is equipped to deliver Internet service over a radio frequency called MMDS. Aware that the AT&T Corp. was moving into cable television and developing a system capable of delivering high-speed Internet access through its cable services, MCI Wordcom and Sprint have spent about $1 Billion in the last few years to buy many of the companies that owned the licenses to the MMDS radio spectrum. Three weeks ago, MCI Worldcom agreed to acquire Sprint in a $115 Billion merger. If the technology is successful, it appears that Internet service providers will be able to choose among cable operators, wireless service providers and perhaps even satellite operators like Teledesic LLC, which is developing a kind of "Internet in the Sky" technology,a multibillion-dollar plan backed by the cellular telephone pioneer Craig McCaw and William H. Gates of Microsoft. Cisco Systems and Motorola are also backing something called LMDS, which is another radio frequency that offers broadband access, mostly to businesses. According to Cisco officials, however, the MMDS system is more effective in crowded urban areas and is more easily available to everyday consumers and the mass market. Robert Edwards, a spokesman for Motorola, said Monday that the company was backing both the LMDS and MMDS technologies and working to develop a large portfolio of offerings so that big technology companies and consumers could have a wide range of alternatives to getting broadband access. The companies involved in the agreement Monday said that the ability to deliver high-speed broadband access through a wireless system would also rapidly accelerate the introduction of broadband services to rural areas and urban centers, and do so more easily and inexpensively. -end of article- AWSS is in the business, check them out. KZAP