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To: Rob S. who wrote (12239)	5/20/2002 3:21:12 PM
From: Bill on the Hill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

We have 9 sites broadcasting from mountain rims into valley floors. Using short (20') towers we use a backhaul of 5.8 ghz Wi-Lan radios with 2.4 dss and fhss point to multi-point cells. Using multiple sites we have signal to a majority of areas and if not we add a cell. Line of sight issues are certainly daunting but not impossible to work with. We certainly do not want to have tunnel vision as far as equipment we choose and as the subscriber base increases and the business model proves itself we will look at other licensed frequencies and technologies to build into the system. Waiting for the technology is not our answer. Building the client base is.... On paper the numbers prove out. It takes time to build the network and we are learning as we go. I think of this as a micro Nextel in the way we acquire market. Stealth mode and soon the base is built. NLOS radios that work would be a welcome addition. Routing tables in the 802.11b which are not Nokia will be welcome. We are in touch with software developers that will be providing this in a software form soon. Hopefully the mesh network will work without chewing up the available bandwidth the way I hear Nokia does. Bill