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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5233)	3/15/2002 7:08:24 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

While everyone is saying what the Euros have done with their spectrum was crazy, i.e., paying €130 billion to the government, what the US is doing with its spectrum is crazier. The €130 billion, paid by the operators for spectrum in Europe, can be seen under this perspective: get the government out of this issue. But in the US everything is different. Do you remember PCS licenses being doled out to minorities? That wasn't exaclty clever. Wireless data in the US will end up a big mess not because to the problems Europeans are having now: Battling MSFT inroads, indebteness of operators, lack of applications, delays in terminals' availability, and trying to kill each other and having no money for vendor financing. In the US the problems will be related to spectrum issues, get one of those politicians using spectrum for its own narrow political agenda and political gains. That can derail wireless data in the US. And the SBC's of this world will be just watching and laughing their way to the bank. And asking for a bribe, a.k.a subsisidies to get ADSL in the place where "Judas lost its boots". Oh, and they will be also asking for tax breaks too.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5233)	3/15/2002 7:30:52 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

<<the real point is that obsolete technologies should make way for new ones. "Cars interfered with horses and buggies, but you wouldn't shut down GM. Horses and buggies have to move away. It's the same with spectrum hogs.">> When those copper cable guys were saying that ADSL interfered with their PCMosaurus connections, why no one said: Lets get rid of this obsolete technology and put FTTCurb? Why not? I tell why: Because in the telecoms world, (still sticking to the professor's analogy) the newest Ford Mondeo or Taurus drives on top of a pile of horseshit left by the horse-drawn carriages that share the roads with it. Only Elmat can't bear the stench of this caca. For other, this is even perfume! And this is not in Somalia or Pakistan, this is the USofA!!! Copper, I repeat, will be left underground as the tram tracks that you can still see under the asphalt of European cities!