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To: elmatador who wrote (9589)	12/9/2000 11:38:55 AM
From: justone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Elmatador: Very true. This happend to T1 vs. E1 and ISDN. However, one effect of globalization is that this gap is narrowing. I don't think the internet was improved (it is global) and I suspect that cable, ATM, and other advanced standards will end up being global in the future. The day is passing when a single country or even region can build their own standards. The real deployment difference for mobile is business/cultural more than technical- we have nice wireline phones, thank you, and we don't want ugly towers next to MY property and we have many many lawyers to stop them.

To: elmatador who wrote (9589)	12/9/2000 12:09:05 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Your "leapfrog effect" conclusion for wireless/mobile applies equally to ftth, as well, as I noted upstream. But what does this say about the "next" generation of rollouts, once the US's prototypical-like frameworks undergo exhaust or become totally obsolete? The obvious answer to this is that the US will itself at some point be the one doing the leapfrogging, no? Unless, of course, those other systems being deployed abroad are continuously scalable and upgradable, but I don't think so. Improvements in materials and processing will find the next speed and performance gap to fill, where extant systems cannot go. Going back to the ftth model, we're beginning to see this with HFC now, although it's difficult to see just where the limitations exist yet. This is because the MSOs simply will not permit the types of applications that would reveal such shortcomings. Such as high-quality two-way videoconferencing, vod/cablemodem, etc.