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To: Quincy who wrote (129226)	5/23/2003 2:46:05 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Worse, you are still overestimating... 1. Our interest in expensive portable broadband devices 2. Our willingness to pay subscriptions for these devices. 3. Our willingness to demand broadband services to something with a 2" screen. 4. Carrier's willingness to clear out overcrowded licensed spectrum in absence of points 1, 2, 3. 5. Carrier's willingness to subsidize these terminals to the $300 range. 6. Limited propagation of services deployed above 2ghz which is where OFDM needs to be. 7. Our inability to deal with user interfaces on phones. Many of these deficiencies also would apply to 3G wireless broadband as well. What are your feelings for the demand for 3G services? Why would 3G succeed in creating/maintaining/supplying a market for wireless broadband where WiFi/ricochet might fail? I always thought it was a bad sign that ricohet had such pathetic take up.

To: Quincy who wrote (129226)	5/23/2003 9:49:22 PM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

ROFL... you post to me "OFDM still has insurmountable technical barriers to its entry into portable devices that consumers will accept" and post as evidence an article that describes how tough things are... without noticing it was written by a guy at IceFyre?? Do you know what IceFyre is doing? Get this: "IceFyre is developing a low-power, high-performance, cost effective high-speed, single-mode 802.11a and 802.11a/b/g WLAN system solutions that will make high volume production of wireless high-speed WLAN products a reality." And maybe do some more dd and see how their offerings stack up towards solving some of those "insurmountable" problems you figure are there. If you can't recognize the typical "this stuff is really really hard, but if you look over here we have a patented solution to it" VC marketing support material, you really shouldn't be investing. At the very least, you should think twice before citing something written by IceFyre to back up your assertion that the stuff IceFyre is doing is impossible. JOhn