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To: The Phoenix who wrote (10175)	1/14/2001 2:34:30 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Gary, here in US prospect for fixed wireless is not as great as in Europe. Someone please correct me if I am wrong on subject , but LMDS which has shorter distance of penetration 4.5km(3 miles)can provide higher bandwidth then MMDS which can has longer penetration, I believe something in range of 20 km. For video LMDS seems to be more appropriate. Serious deployment ( beyond Nextlink in US and Maxlink in Canada) may be limited b/c with scatter population in rural areas more based stations would be needed(higher cost, but still much loer then fiber). In Europe particulary and Asia(which may not have cah to lay fiber right away),where density of population is much higher LMDS will be much cheaper( less base stations). In fact based on trials and real contracts sign up by vendors LMDS is poised to pick up significantly this year. Estimate is for 1.5B in 2001 and 3B in 2002 worldwide. ZO