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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (130085)	7/9/2003 6:52:59 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Apart from 'there's no business case' which is an assertion, not a reasoning process, why do you think WiFi won't be a successful business in areas of several square kilometres? WiFi's claim to fame is that it's cheap. When you start adding backhaul, roaming, security, maintenance, labor and the myriad other costs that go along with creating, operating and maintaining a smallish scale network, the costs become too high. Period. Full stop. Your examples are nice, but I don't see them happening in the real world. If WiFi, which is not so new as its current hype, were viable, it would have happened a long time ago. Well, most people gave my CDMA hopes the kiss of death in the early 1990s too. You were lucky, Mq. Remember the 80-20 rule--we make most of our money out of 20% of our investments. WiFi doesn't have anyone like IMJ, Gilhousen, or Viterbi ram-rodding it. Wireless folklore has it that the various Q brain-trusters looked at it years ago, concluding that there was no business case. In my view, that's a fairly decent thumb's down from a group I trust. You don't see Bi$$ Gate$ getting hot and bothered over WiFi, do you?