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To: slacker711 who wrote (103819)	9/5/2001 1:06:59 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

alitlle of both

To: slacker711 who wrote (103819)	9/5/2001 1:16:56 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Much of the collapse in telecom would have been avoided if any of the last mile technologies (cable/DSL/fixed wireless) had been successful. The cost of deploying last mile solutions widely enough for them to have succeeded is probably beyond anyone's imagination. But telecom had that deployment priced in! It's vastly more costly to get last mile bandwidth to everyone than it was to upgrade all those obsolete desktop PCs for Y2K. If you look at developing countries, phone service going in is wireless. We could see much more wireless broadband go in in the US and other western countries for a similar reason, it'll be cheaper than doing the infrastructure everywhere to everyone's home and office. And the convenience where the available bandwidth will suffice will really be a win. But we won't see 100 megabit/sec wireless, maybe not even wired to the home. Even with impeccable quality HDTV, we can't consume that much bandwidth!