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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28248)	1/30/2003 5:36:38 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>ACF, roamad.com in the more efficient 2.4 GHz 802.11b and then 802.11g spectrum with a network with millisecond handoff looks a better bet to me.<< Better look again, then Mq. 802.11 wireless networks have a maximum range measured in feet and are easily hackable. OK for Starbucks but no good for a robust metropolitan wireless broadband network. U-NII networks have a range of up to 2 miles at 5.2GHz and 10 miles at 5.7GHz. The Motorola Canopy system is the leader, imho, in U-NII hardware and is pretty much plug-n-play, no FCC license required. Anyone with the bucks and the moxie can do it. >>An engineered network will beat an evolutionary ad hoc one, depending on timing of course<< Repeat after me - in the free market we trust. Unlike you, I prefer organic (read entrepreneurial) network creation. I think that all the major metropolitan areas of the US will have 5GHz U-NII WISPs or similar within a few years. There is yet another huge bundle of money to be made here, though it won't be made by the retail investor. Of course, I am not a telecom expert like elmat, so...caveat emptor...void where prohibited...past performance does not guarantee future returns...