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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (9135)	11/8/2000 8:17:56 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Thanks for the clarification, Frank. Staying with the consumer side of the issue: We have a telecoms continental divide: US wired - European wireless. This telephony divide is slowly being ported to the data segment. Hence your US-centric view of DSL. Given that European operators reached V1 (in pilots' jargon the speed which they either take off or crash at the end of the runway) wireless data will be reality even if conceived in vitro, pulled out by forceps or even assembled Frankenstein-like. Just look to the amount they paid for the licenses. (For the ones who like 'hard' instead of soft facts) Touching the business side of the issue: There is a huge cost associated with single-line home users. Mandate public service and all that. Things only get interesting -for operators once they serve two to above line users. Those single line user have always been subsidised by overcharging business users, long distance and international calls. Would those single line home users be profitable by selling them ADSL?