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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5364)	10/5/2002 9:01:10 PM
From: JohnG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

HI Maurice. Read the Power Point pres, etc. You may be right that they have something big starting own there. God knows that the GSM crowd needs some relief -- and are banking on Wi-Fi to help. Time will tell. There is room for more than one High Data Rate solution.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (5364)	1/15/2003 4:03:42 PM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 12231

Bell Canada to make pay phones hot spots rcrnews.com Jan. 15, 2003 12:54 PM EST SAN DIEGO?In partnership with Bell Canada, San Diego-based inCode Telecom, a technology consulting firm, has launched AccessZone, a pilot service that lets North American wireline carriers transform pay phones into 802.11b hot spots. Each pay phones in high-traffic areas like airports, train stations, hotels, convention centers and corporate campuses can be equipped to create a hot spot radius of approximately 300 feet in which end users can access the Internet via their laptop or palmtop computers. ?This new service offering, a comprehensive strategic business and technical plan, can help wireline carriers grab wireless market share, leverage their existing payphone infrastructure in an innovative and resourceful way and provide enterprise workers easy access to wireless data. We expect U.S. carriers to follow in Bell Canada?s footsteps very soon,? said John Donovan, chief executive officer of inCode Telecom. ?Wireless service providers, manufacturers, carriers and customers dream of a day where numerous Wi-Fi networks span the nation. Today, we are one step closer to making that dream a reality.?