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To: pcstel who wrote (99431)	5/18/2001 11:31:34 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Most if not all of these are losing their shirts because they cannot offer authentication. I think if you do a careful analysis on each of their business cases, you will find that each one of them is bleeding alot of money wihtout alot of profit. Airzone is loosing, Mobilestar is loosing, Cisco is buying up the market by dumping inventory into it..... The Starbucs one is the most pitiful. Mobilestar had a partnership with Microsoft and then Microsoft figured that since Mobilestar had to hire IBM to do the service install and support, that they then had the right to dump them and get into it with Cisco, who is trying to write down alot of inventory on small routers and 802.11 equipment. this whole market is in for a giant upheaval soon for many reasons. authentication is one of them, security is another. overall roaming and integration is yet another. they are good for one little cell where one user is fixed, but the entire industry is problematic because they do not offer mobility in a way that remains profitable for the service being offered. wihtout that, you will have another debacle like the .COMs who offered everything on web pages based on web hit advertising rates. They folded when too many offers for web hits were around and everyone could drive the price of them down. 802.11 is a wonderful technology, but the overall business cases for it are pretty strained.