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To: J Langholtz who wrote (2294)	6/30/2002 11:32:14 AM
From: pcstel	Respond to of 2737

How will DV or DO be economical for real broadband transmission? If part of the thesis for broadband is video etc. won't multi meg and gig files be common place? At 2 cents per meg this could get king of expensive. The cost of a gig would 20 bucks. Is that correct or is this analysis faulty? I don't think my thesis advocated Broadband data rates! As a matter of fact, just the opposite. My viewpoint is addressing the "Landline replacement market". In order to provide an cost effective proposition to displace landline, Cricket must provide all of the user experience factors of wireline, at a comparable price point, while providing limited mobility. That is why I call it "Wireless Dial Up". 50 -70kbs peak throughput that is equal to typical Wireline Dial-Up. If they keep their wireline phone for Internet Access, then Cricket could provide always-on similar to Dial-Up rates via DO. In addition, the 2 cent a meg cost structure is based on OpEx,D/A, and other related costs of a complete new network deployment. In the case of Cricket, the Air Interface/ Fixed Network are already in place, and being subsidized by the voice segment. So I would expect that the actual cost per Meg is "much lower" given a mixed Voice/DO deployment. PCSTEL