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To: John F Beule who wrote (11915)	9/21/2001 12:40:09 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

Datacoms is the next incumbent. 3G threatens to port to the air interface what today 'travel' by wire LAN-WAN. Spectrum, does for 3G what the copper plant did for ADSL. I don't know if you have followed the CLEC debacle. This resource -spectrum- has to be made available with care. That's because it has the potential to lay waste in today LAN-WAN environment. Incumbents have a lot of clout in Washington. Just note that they did with the Telecom Act of 1996. It didn't happen. They torpedoed it. Now it is time to defend the revenues and all the acquired interests in today's datacoms status quo. National security is the last resource of the lobbyist. In name of 'national security' many incumbent can hide his commercial interests. Expect WLAN's to be the target of much 'security' concerns That's because WLAN's are the technologies that will crack the datacom incumbent wall.

To: John F Beule who wrote (11915)	9/28/2001 2:17:26 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi John, Re: Obviously that had been stopped by Bush admin. after being elected because the defense department uses the spectrum for national security purposes. I think you may not quite have a handle on how things are done here. The administrations come and go, but the bureaucracy lives on forever. It wasn't the Bush administration that put the kibosh on DoD voluntarily giving up spectrum (turf). It was the DoD itself that didn't want to give an inch. Remember, in America, it's bureaucracy that sets the tone and sets the pace. Don't expect 3G, without any established advocates among the bureaus, to get anywhere soon. -Ray