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To: JMD who wrote (1438)	6/28/2001 3:11:24 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 1983

Hi Mike, I am very sympathetic with your tale of woe in trying to get broadband into your building. What you need is free space optics! May I suggest that you call Optical Access, whose office is in the Denver Tech Center? Their phone number is (303) 221-6637. If you have line-of-sight access to your building, they will come out and within a few days install broadband access via laser at speeds up to 1.25 Gbps. The installation can either be roof-top of directly through an office window. Wave of the future. Free space optics bypasses all of that fiber-in-the-ground, and for far less money. You might also be interested in checking out this comment: Message 16008357 Good luck!

To: JMD who wrote (1438)	6/30/2001 10:08:07 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 1983

Telecoms vendors are hollowing out. This is hurting operators. They want to sell their factories, keep only R&D, sales and marketing and outsource everything else. Pretty soon companies discover -as in this case of broadband- that they have products, market and sell them but there is no one to put the whole thing together and make it work. Don't forget lack of expertise. The technologies were there. The market is there. What was missing? EXPERTISE! We build mobile networks, from RF planning, site acquisition, site preparation, installation of the telecoms gear (Base Stations), build microwave radio access and integrate the site. In a country that we don't know the language or the laws and regulations. And we do it in record time. This is the expertise of the Europeans who have built networks over the last ten years. A typical mobile network has 5.000 cells. All this knowledge is spread among thousands of single individuals that are brought together to a rollout and disperse as soon as the network goes live. Broadband needs this kind of expertise in building networks completely and fast.