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To: carranza2 who wrote (35018)	6/14/2003 12:31:18 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

dung beetle?! In Russia you would get a reproaching "nyet Kulturni" comment. Queen Victoria would say she were "not amused". Let's call it the ultimate scarab: The Scarab (good luck beetle) of Egypt.In ancient Egypt, the Scarab beetle was considered as the symbol of the Sun God Re and resurrection of eternal life. Scarab amulets were very popular, carried good luck inscription, therefore Pharaohs used them as a symbol of new life and good luck. giza.safeshopper.com dj@TongueInCheeck.org

To: carranza2 who wrote (35018)	6/22/2003 5:44:04 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

C2, I think there's a business case for wide WiFi networks. My question is which companies will be successful in building them. I've bet on RoamAD. And bet some more last week [accepting that it was high risk money worth either $0 or up to $100 million]. CDMA1xEV-DO simply can't compete. 80MHz of free spectrum is valuable and gives high capacity in 802.11g OFDM. The huge economies of scale of WiFi, with a WiFi-powered iPAQ costing less than a Telecom New Zealand CDMA 1xRTT PCMCIA card and data prices of US$4 per megabyte vs 10c for RoamAD mean that WiFi has got a huge advantage over CDMA. AND it's a lot faster. A WiFi PCMCIA card is now something like $30. Irwin says that CDMA will won't be replaced for voice and I'm inclined to agree with that. But there will be a lot of voice done by VOIP via WiFi and MSN Messenger. People will have multimode, multiband devices. CDMA for WANs and WiFi for heavily populated areas. Mqurice

To: carranza2 who wrote (35018)	6/22/2003 5:45:08 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

C2, I think there's a business case for wide WiFi networks. My question is which companies will be successful in building them. I've bet on RoamAD. And bet some more last week [accepting that it was high risk money worth either $0 or up to $100 million]. CDMA1xEV-DO simply can't compete in heavily populated areas where WiFi comes into its own. 80MHz of free WiFi spectrum is valuable and gives high capacity in 802.11g OFDM. The huge economies of scale of WiFi, with a WiFi-powered iPAQ costing less than a Telecom New Zealand CDMA 1xRTT PCMCIA card and data prices of US$4 per megabyte vs 10c for RoamAD mean that WiFi has got a huge advantage over CDMA. AND it's a lot faster. A WiFi PCMCIA card is now something like $30. Irwin says that CDMA won't be knocked of the champion perch and I'm inclined to agree with that. But there will be a lot of voice done by VOIP via WiFi and MSN Messenger. Mqurice