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To: John Biddle who wrote (109370)	12/8/2001 7:36:50 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

For example, it can be used while commuting on Trains, busses and subways nobody with the money to buy a fancy phone uses these, outside the Northeast. bus? what's that? i think i rode one in the second grade. I'm not at all convinced that 802.11 will find a big market in public subscriptions....After all, how can they download or browse their favorite sex site while at the coffee shop or the airport? this is kind of a curious argument. first you say there will be all these new must-have applications on devices that don't yet exist (on services that don't yet exist) for future cellphones; then you dismiss 802.11 because somebody went bankrupt providing a service TODAY, on devices people use TODAY, to access content and applications existing TODAY. one other interpretation is that if you can't sell wireless broadband to the low-hanging fruit (people with laptops, who have big screens and are stationary and thus can view any content), then there's not much chance of getting the nuts at the top of the tree (the handset users of the future who will somehow need 5Mbps while driving down the freeway).