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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (10830)	4/2/2001 2:23:49 PM
From: noj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

is this the kind of thing that MikeM54321 was considering for Last Mile ??? To:Shi who wrote (9335) From: mightylakers Friday, Mar 30, 2001 5:57 PM Respond to of 9351 That broadband is line of sight kind of fixed wireless. You put a pole on top of your house to receive. Here is how it works How It Works Sprint Broadband Direct SM is based on an innovative technology called fixed wireless. Unlike mobile wireless, fixed wireless uses a stationary digital transceiver at the home or business receiving the service. The ransceiver is pointed toward a radio transmission tower to send and receive a signal. The digital transceiver is a small, 13.5"x 13.5" diamond-shaped device, which is less than half the size of the common Direct Broadcast Satellite TV dish. The radio transmission tower can send and receive high-speed Internet data to customers that are up to 35 miles away, making it the perfect service for nearly all customers in a metropolitan area, including suburban and rural areas that are too far away from the city to receive other broadband services. Service also will be available to inner city neighborhoods that have been excluded by other wired broadband providers. Two-way wireless access means that you will not only have incredibly fast downloads, but, you will also be able to send and upload files much more quickly, with the ease of always being on. The Sprint Broadband Direct network is a highly-reliable, highly-secure medium for data transmission as Sprint has exclusively-licensed digital frequency rights to its wireless spectrum.

To: Bernard Levy who wrote (10830)	4/2/2001 3:56:40 PM
From: transmission	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

LMDS and other millimeter wave freqs are way up high at 24-40 GHz. Short range wide bandwidth vs. MDS which is 2150-2162 MHz and 2500-2686 MHz. MDS is close to PCS, could be long range mobile internet if politics/payoffs allowed. BLS has mothballed its MDS digital video rollout and is part of Cingular in its PCS airgrab attempt. FON & WCOM have only invested $2B in acquisitions and comparable maybe in rollout to date, not the $19 billion trade association cited would be change out cost if successfully rolled out nationwide and then switched frequency toward end of decade.