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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (35266)	6/22/2003 11:10:07 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

You inadvertently pointed to the problem--with WiFi being so cheap, how will it make money? How will it justify the infra and other capex costs? I'll grant you for purposes of argument that there will be plenty of future abracadabras that will allow it to provide service over a larger geographical range, and that outfits like RoamAD are simply the beginning of the WiFi story. Nevertheless, given the revenue structure you pointed to, how is the capex going to be justified? Also, you've no doubt noticed that RoamAD's speed will not compete with DO's. Until there is speed, large scale WiFi networks using similar algorithms developed by RoamAD will not be competitive. We'll see. Jury's still out.