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To: limtex who wrote (40328)	3/13/2002 1:22:44 PM
From: brightness00	Respond to of 99280

"And if you are not at home how else can youstay on line?" a) You don't. People had been living for ages without being online all the time. Take a day off-line and enjoy the sun. b) If you are in the city, try 802.11b wireless neighborhoods. I have nothing against the technology per se. In fact, I can't wait for it to come down in price, and build up a customer base to support enough towers to make connection stable. I could use another back up connection even at home. However, price is the key. IMHO, non-business consumers' tolerance for any connection is about $40-50 a month unlimitted access. Just look at how cable broadband, DSL and cell phone itself exploded when the plans prices dropped to that range. Metered service would never work unless the included minutes/megbytes is large enough to make consumers feel reasonably confident that that's all they need. Internet itself languished in Japan for years because local phone service is metered. The fact that there is only duopoly in the field is what makes me less than optimistic about the companies that will be making/licensing the technology back room. The telephone monopoly's sweet spot for ISDN was a lot lower in number than the sweet spot for ISDN modem makers.